Wildflowers on the Alaska Highway

We saw some beautiful wildflowers on our trip from Anchorage to Skagway. The summer season is brief in Alaska and Western Canada, so flowers put on a short, colorful blitz to accomplish propagation. Many of the plants are miniature, with more energy going to reproduction than height

Here are some of my favorites. The Artemisia was not in bloom, but was fun to see the dwarf version of a familiar plant that grows in California. The tender conifer bough and cones looked so fresh and appealing. The masses of yellow dandelion, pink fireweed, and blue lupine were spectacular.

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)	Chiming Bells (Mertensia paniculata)
Wild Blue Flax (Linum lewisii)	Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)
Artemisa (Artemisa alaskana)	Arctic Lupine (Lupinus arcticus)
Unidentified – conifer cone	Unidentified – yellow

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Some of these are documented on the Alaska Wildflowers website: http://www.alaskawildflowers.us/