Homestead Trail

 

1:44 pm

homestead thicket

Sunny, snow on ground, blue sky

 Plants:

Devils Club, Oplopanax horridus

 

Cow Parsnip, Heracleum maximum

 

Fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium

 

Large Leaf Avens, Geum macrophyllum

 

Yarrow, Achillea millefolium

 

Sitka Spruce, Picea sitchensis

 

Mountain Ash, Sorbus sitchensis

 

Black Cottonwood, Populus balsamifera

 

Lady Fern, Athyrium

 

Goats Beard, Aruncus diolicus

 

Rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus

 

Animlas:

sitka periwinkle Littorina sitkana

 

 Sea lion Eumetopias jubatus

 

sitka periwinkle Littorina sitkana

 

pacific blue mussel Mytilus edulis

 

Reference Guide. (1994). In J. Pojar (Ed.), Plants Of The Pacific Northwest Coast (p. 528). Canada: Lone Pine Publisher

 

Pratt, Verna E. Alaskan Wildflowers. N.p.: AlaskaKrafts, 1989. Print