Last updated: December 16, 2020
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Checklist: Common Sedges, Showy Flowers, and Other Plants of Cook Inlet
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SEDGES
🔲 Lyngbye’s Sedge (Carex lyngbyei)🔲 Ramensk’s Sedge (Carex ramenskii)
🔲 Manyflower Sedge (Carex pluriflora)
🔲 Lesser Salt Marsh Sedge (Carex glareosa)
🔲 Gmelin’s sedge (Carex gmelinii)
🔲 Water sedge (Carex aquatilis)
GRASSES
🔲 Red Fescue (Festuca rubra)🔲 Beach Wildrye (Leymus mollis)
🔲 Bluejoint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
🔲 Largeflower Speargrass (Poa eminens)
🔲 Meadow Barley (Hordeum brachyantherum)
OTHER SALT MARSH PLANTS
🔲 Arrowgrass (Triglochin maritima)🔲 Goose Tongue, Sea Plantain (Plantago maritima)
🔲 Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum)
🔲 Seacoast Angelica (Angelica lucida)
🔲 Alaska Bog Willow (Salix fuscescens)
🔲 Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
🔲 Marsh Arrowgrass (Triglochin palustris)
SHOWY FLOWERS
🔲 Beach Pea (Lathyrus japonicus)🔲 Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium, Epilobium angustifolium)
🔲 Nootka Lupine (Lupinus nootkatensis)
🔲 Wild Geranium, Woolly Geranium (Geranium erianthum)
🔲 Blue Flag Iris, Wild Iris, Beachhead Iris (Iris setosa)
🔲 Chocolate Lily, Skunk Lily (Fritillaria camschatcensis)
🔲 Beach Groundsel, Seaside Ragwort (Senecio pseudoarnica)
🔲 Pacific Silverweed (Argentina egedii)
🔲 Arctic Daisy (Chrysanthemum arcticum)
🔲 Arctic Rattlebox (Rhinanthus minor ssp. groenlandicus)
🔲 Bluntleaf Sandwort (Moehringia lateriflora)
🔲 Purple Marshlocks (Comarum palustre)
🔲 Three-Petal Bedstraw (Galium trifidum ssp. trifidum)
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Showy Flowers of the Cook Inlet Coast
Look closer at common showy flowers to learn how to identify and where to find them.
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Sedges and Grasses of Cook Inlet
Get a closer look at common salt marsh sedges and grasses and how to identify them.