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Vegetation

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Flourishing Flora

Blanketing the Upper Kenai Peninsula spring through fall is an ever-changing tapestry of ripening berries, blossoming wildflowers and fascinating foliage. Many of the over 1,500 species of Alaskan wildflowers can be seen on the Upper Kenai. Here are some of the most commonly seen...

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Blueberry

Edible Berries

  • Blueberry

  • Cloudberry

  • Low-Bush Cranberry

  • Crowberry

  • Currant

  • High-Bush Cranberry

  • Raspberry

  • Salmonberry

  • Watermelon Berry

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High Bush Cranberry

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Columbine

Flowers

  • Bluebells 

  • Chocolate Lily 

  • Fireweed 

  • Jacob's Ladder

  • Paintbrush

  • Columbine

  • Prickly Wild Rose

  • Forget-Me-Not

  • Nootka Lupine 

Forget-Me-Not

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Monkshood

Plants to Avoid

  • Devil’s Club (skin irritant)

  • Cow Parsnip (skin irritant)

  • Monkshood  (Poisonous)

  • Amanita muscaria (Poisonous)

  • Baneberry(Poisonous) 

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Amanita muscaria

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Aspen Trees in winter

Trees

  • Alder 

  • Aspen

  • Birch

  • Cottonwood

  • Hemlock

  • Sitka Spruce

  • White Spruce

  • Black Spruce

  • Willow

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Spruce covered in moss

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Devil's Club

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