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Mountain Lupine in full bloom on Cecil Rhode Mountain. ©Best Route Productions

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...

Alaska Blueberries ©Best Route Productions

Blueberry

Edible Berries

  • Blueberry

  • Cloudberry

  • Low-Bush Cranberry

  • Crowberry

  • Currant

  • High-Bush Cranberry

  • Raspberry

  • Salmonberry

  • Watermelon Berry

High Bush Cranberries along the Kenai Lake. ©Best Route Productions

High Bush Cranberry

Alaska Red Columbine in full bloom. ©Best Route Productions

Columbine

Flowers

  • Bluebells 

  • Chocolate Lily 

  • Fireweed 

  • Jacob's Ladder

  • Paintbrush

  • Columbine

  • Prickly Wild Rose

  • Forget-Me-Not

  • Nootka Lupine 

Alaska State Flower the Forget-Me-Not, ©Best Route Productions

Forget-Me-Not

Poisonous but beautiful, purple monkshood. ©Best Route Productions

Monkshood

Plants to Avoid

  • Devil’s Club (skin irritant)

  • Cow Parsnip (skin irritant)

  • Monkshood  (Poisonous)

  • Amanita muscaria (Poisonous)

  • Baneberry(Poisonous) 

Alaska mushrooms, aminita muscaria, deadly mushrooms. ©Best Route Productions

Amanita muscaria

Alaskan aspen trees in winter. ©Best Route Productions

Aspen Trees in winter

Trees

  • Alder 

  • Aspen

  • Birch

  • Cottonwood

  • Hemlock

  • Sitka Spruce

  • White Spruce

  • Black Spruce

  • Willow

Alaska spruce trees covered in green moss. ©Best Route Productions

Spruce covered in moss

Alaska Devil's Club, ©Best Route Productions

Devil's Club

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