Alaska native plants
Alaska gardening is defined by a short, intense season and a long dark winter: plants get very long summer days and only a few frost-free months to use them. The catalog's Alaska natives skew to boreal and coastal species that handle cold, wet, acidic ground and low-nutrient soil.
Bedfellow lists 168 of these.
The 30 most-observed are listed here — see all 168 in search.
- Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)
- Selfheal (Prunella vulgaris)
- Bracken Fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- Western Sword Fern (Polystichum munitum)
- Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
- Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- Western Columbine (Aquilegia formosa)
- Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
- Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea)
- Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
- American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)
- Purple Pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea)
- Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta)
- Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
- Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra)
- Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
- Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata)
- Twinberry Honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata)
- Green False Hellebore (Veratrum viride)
- Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- Shrubby Cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
- Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)
- Fringecup (Tellima grandiflora)
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