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Vegetation

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...

Blueberry
Edible Berries
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Blueberry
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Cloudberry
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Low-Bush Cranberry
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Crowberry
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Currant
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High-Bush Cranberry
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Raspberry
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Salmonberry
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Watermelon Berry

High Bush Cranberry

Columbine
Flowers
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Bluebells
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Chocolate Lily
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Fireweed
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Jacob's Ladder
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Paintbrush
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Columbine
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Prickly Wild Rose
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Forget-Me-Not
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Nootka Lupine

Forget-Me-Not

Monkshood
Plants to Avoid
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Devil’s Club (skin irritant)
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Cow Parsnip (skin irritant)
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Monkshood (Poisonous)
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Amanita muscaria (Poisonous)
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Baneberry(Poisonous)

Amanita muscaria

Aspen Trees in winter
Trees
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Alder
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Aspen
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Birch
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Cottonwood
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Hemlock
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Sitka Spruce
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White Spruce
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Black Spruce
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Willow

Spruce covered in moss

Devil's Club
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