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2010 VASCULAR PLANT SURVEY Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Sitkalidak Island Old Harbor vicinity, Kodiak Island Kodiak road system Summer 2010 . Carolyn Parker UAF Museum of the North Herbarium, Fairbanks Stacy Studebaker Kodiak NWR, Kodiak sponsored by
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2010 VASCULAR PLANT SURVEY Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Sitkalidak Island Old Harbor vicinity, Kodiak Island Kodiak road system Summer 2010 Carolyn Parker UAF Museum of the North Herbarium, Fairbanks Stacy Studebaker Kodiak NWR, Kodiak sponsored by Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak, Alaska all photos by Stacy Studebaker!!
Camp #4 Camp #1 Camp #2 Camp #3 Sitkalidak Island Study Area & Campsites July – August 2010 Rolling Bay
McCord Ranch, head of McCord Bay Port Hobron, Sitkalidak Island
Glehnia littoralis Ocean Bay, Sitkalidak Island
Valley linking Ocean Bay and McCord Bay Sitkalidak Island Eleocharis nitida Eleocharis kamtschatica
Head of Natalia Bay, Sitkalidak Lagoon Sitkalidak Island
Head of Sitkalidak Lagoon ‘…the status of species in Cochlearia as a whole poses serious problems.’ ‘…looks like C. scotica…’ ‘detailed microsatellite studies most likely provide the answer..’ ‘..substantial hybridization and polyploidy played a role in evolution…’ Ihsan Al-Shehbaz, BRA taxonomist, MBG Cochlearia sessilifolia?
Rolling Bay Sitkalidak Island vic. of abandoned Koniag village site ‘Numat’
Hieracium triste (incl. H. gracile) ‘var. fulvum’ Upper Big Creek valley
‘Russian salmon berry’ Leucanthemum vulgare Anthoxanthum odoratum
Linaria vulgaris Trifolium hybridum
Veronica peregrina var. xalapensis Tanacetum vulgare
New to the Kodiak Archipelago – Native Species Agrostis gigantia Roth Alnus rubra Bong. Arnica mollis Hook Beckmannia syzigachne (Steud.) Fern. Callitriche hermaphroditica L. Potentilla norvegica L. Ranunculus cymbalaria Pursh
New to the Kodiak Archipelago ‘Non-native’ Species Achillea ptarmica L. Anthoxanthum odoratum L. Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. Hesperis matronalis L. Leontodon autumnalis L. Linaria vulgaris Mill. Sagina procumbens L. Spergularia rubra (L.) J. Presl Veronica peregrina L. var. xalapensis (Kunth) Pennell
New to the Kodiak Island ‘Non-native’ Species Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. New to ALA Collections from Kodiak area Carex mertensii J.D. Prescott Elymus repens (L.) Gould (non-native) Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt G5 S3 Hordeum jubatum L. (non-native)
Other Notable Non-Native Records Kodiak 2010 SurveyCrepis tectorum L. (2d record for KI)Poa annua L. (3d record for KA)Tanacetum vulgare L. (2d record for KI) Tripleurospermum inodorum (L.) Sch. Bip. (2d record for KI)
Species Ranked for Rarity in Alaska Kodiak 2010 Survey Arnica mollis Hook G5 S1 Cochlearia sessilifolia Rollins G1G2 S1S2 Eleocharis kamtschatica (C.A. Mey.) Kom. G4 S2S3 Eleocharis nitida Fernald G3G4 S1 Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt G5 S3 Isoetes occidentalis L.F. Hend. G4G5 S1S2 Plagiobothrys orientalis (L.) I.M. Johnst. G3G4 S3 Poa leptocoma Trin. G5 S2 Romanzoffia unalaschcensis Cham. G3 S3
Many thanks to….. Stacy and Mike Bill Pyle and Gary Wheeler and the ‘office girls’ at KNWR Old Harbor Village and Old Harbor Native Corporation our weather-wise crew pilots and Blythe Brown ........and to all those very curious but (ultimately) very good bears!