Native range
Native plants of Alaska
25 wild species and 5 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in Alaska, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 22 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
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How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; Alaska is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. All 30 of these plants have been checked against outside sources; each plant's own page shows its sources. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Recorded across Alaska
How many of the state's 30 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in Alaska; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 24 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Tufted Hairgrass
- Kinnikinnick
- Bunchberry
- Paper Birch
- Potentilla
- Lady Fern
- Red Elderberry
- Sea Thrift
- Chives
- Quaking Aspen
- Great Burnet
- Goatsbeard
- Western Serviceberry
- Redosier Dogwood
- Western Columbine
- Ostrich Fern
- Bristleleaf Sedge
- Deer Fern
- Soft Rush
- Salal
- Western Sword Fern
- Common Snowberry
- Prairie Junegrass
- Western Red Cedar
Garden forms of Alaska natives
22 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in Alaska and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Bar Harbor Juniper
- Black Hills Spruce
- Blue Chip Juniper
- Blue Rug Juniper
- Compact Andorra Juniper
- Deschampsia Goldtau Grass
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Happy Face Yellow
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Tangerine
Plant groups native to Alaska
5 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in Alaska; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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Native to your own county
This page is the whole state. In the free garden planner, enter your ZIP and Garden Check lists these same plants for your location, marks the ones recorded growing wild in your county, and places any of them in your plan; its Browse tab answers for any of the 65 states, provinces and territories with no account.
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