Root Glacier Trail

Kennicott

6/2/11

Root Glacier Trail

Plants

Soap Berry---Shepherdia canadensis

Common Dandelion---Taraxacum officinale

Prickly Saxifrage---Saxifraga tricuspidata

Green Map Lichen---Rhizocarpon geographicum

False Pixie Cup---Cladonia chlorophaea

Yellow Anemone---Anemone ranunculoides

Large Flowered Wintergreen---Pyrola grandiflora

White Spruce---Picea glauca

Narcissus Flowered Anemone

Elegant Orange Lichen---Xanthoria Elegans

Barclay Willow---Salix Barclayi

Monks Hood---Aconitum Columbianum

White Heather---Cassiope mertensiana

Sub Alpine Fir---Abies lasiocarpa Nutt.

Mountain Avens---Dryas integrifolia/octopetala

Paper Birch---Betula papyrifera

Lupins---Lupinus angustifolius

Mountain Ash---Sorbus americana

Beautiful Jacobs Ladder---Polemonium pulcherrimum

Lemon Lichen---Candelaria concolor

Dwarf Fireweed---Chamerion latifolium

Iceland Moss (Lichen)---Cetraria islandica L.

Twin Flower---Linnaea borealis

Alpine Bearberry---Arctostaphylos alpina

Kichatna Watercress---Nasturtium officinale

Balsam Poplar---Populus balsamifera

Creatures

Mourning Cloak---Nymphalis antiopa

Ants SP.

Black Beetle---Pterostichus melanarius

Swallow SP.

It was an cool trail being on the side of the hill like that like the whole town was. What a view too, seeing that Karst and hearing the glacier cracking was amazing. It was pretty to see all the other plants that grew there and see the difference between there and here.