McCarthy Field Trip, Day 2

September 6, 2014 2:03 pm Kennecot Mines

weather: light rain till 2:30, then partly cloudy, winds 7 mph

geo: gravel, mountain, mill sight, lateral moraine

non-vegetative life: moose Alces alces, gnats

plants & fungi:

cow parsnip Heracleum lanatum

northern yarrow Achillea borealis

dandelion Taraxacum officinale

river beauty/dwarf fireweed Epilobium latifolium

white spruce Picea glauca

balsam poplar Populus balsamifera

willow Salix sp.

common horsetail Equisetum arvense

feather moss Kindbergia oregana

freckled pelt lichen Peltigera brittannica

frog pelt lichen Peltigera neopolydactyla

pixie cup lichen Claudonia chlorophaea

arctic lupine Lupinus arcticus

red alder Alnus rubra

beautiful jacobs ladder

prickly rose Rosa acicularis

alpine bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina

bog blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum

crowberry/mossberry Empetrum nigrum

spiny puffball Lycoperdon echinatum

pink wintergreen Pyrola asarifolia

green wintergreen Pyrola chlorantha

prickly saxifrage Saxifraga bronchialis

waterworm lichen Siphula ceratites

dog pelt lichen Peltigera canina

yellow sulfur lichen

northern red currant Ribes triste

soapberry Shepherdia canadensis

artemisia sp.

subalpine fir Abies lasiocarpa

broomrape/groundcone Boschniakia rossica

scouring-rush Equisetum hyemale

puffball Lycoperdon perlatum

juniper bush Juniperus communis

common fireweed Epilobium angustifolium

Works Cited:

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Pojar, J., MacKinnon, A., & Alaback, P. B. (1994). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Redmond, Wash.: Lone Pine Pub..

Pratt, V. E. (1989). Field guide to Alaskan wildflowers. Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskakrafts Pub..