Sunday, June 5, 2011

West Kennecott Glacier Trail

Friday 6/3/11
12:00PM
68F
Sunny with very little wind.

Dwarf Dogwood- Cornus pumila
Twinflower- Linnaea borealis
Freckled Pelt- Peltigera aphthosa
Frog Pelt- Peltigera neopolydactyla
Wild Rose- Rosa virginiana
Crowberry- Empetrum sp.
Stiff clubmoss- Lycopodium annotinum
Blue Elf Cup- Chlorociboria aeruginascens
Northern Black Currant- Ribes hudsonianum
Lowbush Cranberry- Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Tall Lungwort- Geocaulon lividum
Norther Red Currant- Ribes triste
Green Alder-Alnus viridis
Yellow Anenome- Anemone ranuculoides
Venus Slipper- Anguloa clowesii
Tall Jacob's Ladder- Polemonium acutiflorum
Paper Birch- Betula papyrifera
Labrador Tea- Rhododendron groenlandicum
Narcissus Flowered Anemone- Anemone narcissiflora
Northern Bastard Badflax- Geocaulon lividum

This trail was really cool to walk through and had a lot of interesting plants. We were able to see the holes in the spruce trees from the spruce beettles. It also had a lot of mosquitos, A LOT. They made it difficult to pay attention to everything around me but it was still a cool little trail.

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