Category: Pressed Plants
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Voucher Specimen – Basil Harper
Apologies for the late post, with the holiday it took me a full week to get to the library and print off my specimen labels. The location part is blurred for my privacy. I don’t think it would be hard for y’all to figure out where I live anyway, but posting my home address to the internet felt kind of unsafe.
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Kirstie’s Pressed Plants
My first sample was collected while working in the community of Chistochina during the first week of June as I was still focusing on Labrador tea for my Ethnobotany Plant Profile assignment. The other three plant samples were gathered in my yard here in Seward.
White Twisted Stalk (Streptopus amplexifolius (L.)) 
Foamflower (Tiarella trifoliata (L.)) 
Red Campion (Silene dioica (L.) Clairv. 
Labrador Tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum (Oeder) Kron & Judd -
Pressed Plants
Hello! Here are some plants from around my house that I chose to press. Turns out berries don’t press too well!
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herbarium specimens
I collected these in a walk in Hydaburg near the ocean in a coastal tree line near spruce hemlock and cedar. The salal and bunchberry were entangled and the clover just a few steps away so they enjoy the same habitat.
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Pressed Plants
Most of the forget-me-nots in Alaska; assuming I identified the tundra ones correctly.
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Pressed Plants: Voucher Specimens
I collected these specimens from the Maud Plumley Trail in Butte, AK. This trail is one of my favorite hikes in the area. It has such a broad range of plants and fungi; I could spend all day there and hardly have to leave the trailhead. Theres so many interesting things to get lost in. It does have it’s share of hazards, though. The mosquitos are viscious and one year the wasps were building their nests just above our heads. Thats a small price to pay for such rich vitality. My good dog and I go several times a week and its worth it every time.
