When to find wildflowers blooming in the Matanuska Valley and Talkeetna Mountains of Southcentral Alaska.

Alaska Perennial Garden

Wildflowers in the Matanuska Valley
Anemone (5/8/99)
Baneberry (6/4/99)
Bluebells of Scotland (7/14/99)
Chiming Bells (6/14/99)
Columbine (6/14/99)
Cow Parsnip, 7/1/99
Dwarf Dogwood (6/26/99)
Fairy Slipper (5/16/99)
Geranium (6/14/99)
Iris (6/22/99)
Jacob's Ladder (6/4/99)
Large-Flowered Wintergreen (6/4/99)
Larkspur (7/16/99)
Lily of the Valley (6/14/99)
Lupine (6/24/99)
Mouse Ear Chickweed (5/27/01)
Northern Red Currant (5/16/99)
Oxytrope (5/27/01)
Potentilla (6/4/99)
Prickly Rose (6/14/99)
Serviceberry (5/27/01)
Starflower (6/4/99)
Trollius (5/31/99)
Twin Flower (6/26/99)
White Lady's Slipper (6/26/99)
Wintergreen (7/1/99)

Mourning Cloak Butterfly on Rose Tree of China Blossom
Photo by K. Eberhart, 1999

Rose Tree of China is an ornamental with gorgeous blossoms, attractive to butterflies. It seems to need a protected location

Hatcher Pass Wildflowers:
Anemone
Chocolate Lily
Dwarf Fireweed
Yellow Paintbrush.