Blue Lake | Sitka Nature

This entry is part 90 of 143 in the series 2008 Photojournal

The white-hairy leaves and old stalks from the prior year helped to identify this plant as Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)

Alaska Paintbrush (Castilleja unalaschcensis) is a little less distinctive before the yellow bracts develop.

I do not remember seeing Yellow Cedar (Xanthocyparis nootkatensis) that looked like it had been browsed by deer.

Swamp Horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)

Alpine Azalea (Loiseleuria procumbens)

Young Yellow Monkey-flower (Mimulus guttatus)

This is a section of the old corduroy road leading to Glacier Lake.

Boreal Sagebrush (Artemisia arctica)

Alpine Milk-vetch (Astragalus alpinus)

Bryophyte growing on lake shore stump

Bluebell Bellflower (Campanula rotundifolia)

Climacium dendroides

It looks like an Omphalina sp or close relative to me

Herbertus aduncus

Small Flat Moss (Pseudotaxiphyllum elegans)

Willow (Salix sp)

Probably scat from a Willow Ptarmigan, but possibly from Rock Ptarmigan or Blue Grouse