Root Glacier Trail

Thursday 6/2/11

1:00PM-5:30PM

66F-69F

Sunny with some clouds coming in towards the end of the day and very little wind.

Plants:

Soap Berries- Shepherdia canadensis

Prickly Saxifrage- Saxifraga tricuspidata

Green Map Lichen- Rhizocarpon geographicum

False Pixie Cup- Cladonia chlorophaea

Wooly Coral- Stereocaulon tomentosum

Yellow Anemone- Anemone ranunculoides

Large Flowered Wintergreen- Pyrola grandiflora

White Spruce- Picea glauca

Narcissus Flowered Anemone- Anemone narcissiflora

Elegant Orange Lichen- Xanthoria elegans

Barclay Willow- salix barclayi

Monkshood- Aconitum sp.

White Heather- Cassiope mertensiana

Early Blueberry- Vaccinium augustifolium

Subalpine Fir- Abies lasiocarpa

Mountain Avens- Abies lasiocarpa

Paper Birch- Betula papyrifera

Juniper- Juniperus communis

Lemon Lichen- Candelaria concolor

Dwarf Fireweed- Chamerion latifolium

Mountain Ash- Sorbus americana

Beautiful Jacob's Ladder- Polemonium elegans

Beaked Willow- Salix bebbiana

Kamchatka Rockcress- Arabis kamchatica

Alpine Bearberry- Arctostaphylos alpina

Twinflower- Linnaea borealis

Balsam Poplar- Populus balsamifera

Animals:

Mourning Cloak- Nymphalis antiopa

Green Comma- Polygonia faunus

Root Glacier Trail was beautiful. I loved that we were able to leave leave the temperate rainforest of Valdez to explore the boreal forest. We were able to see a lot of plants that are not common in Valdez and a wide variety of lichens that i don't think I've seen before.