Introduction

Hi, my name is Michael and I am a junior majoring in Wildlife Biology here at UAF. Some of my hobbies include hiking, skiing, snowmobiling, and generally being outdoors. My botanical journey has mostly just been the nature that I stumble across while doing those activities, I’ve never gone far out of my way to learn much about plants. I have taken a plant bio class prior however. I’ve never thought about what my favorite plant is but one of the first ones that come to mind is the ferns and mosses from Michigan where I’m from. I never took many up close but you can get an idea for the environment.

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  1. Stefanie Ickert-Bond Avatar

    Welcome Michael, yes, those look like pleasant strolls in Michigan. We have a few fern species that are pretty abundant in certain areas. Especially if you are looking closely. We came a cross a number of pure stands of Northern Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman) on our hike to Angel Rock this weekend, it was a great hike. I can highly recommend this hike to anybody needing to fill in the iNaturalist observations for the week. You can easily get 10-15 species flowering (and of course several conifers, ferns, lichens, horsetails, etc. that are not flowering plants).

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