Alaska Flora
Description: The Flora of Alaska project provides a comprehensive synonymized checklist of vascular and non-vascular plants and fruticose lichens of Alaska. Both native and non-native vascular plants are included within the vascular flora. New and updated genera keys and individual taxon accounts will be published for vascular plants as they become available.
alaska (1956) flora (622) arctic (382) vascular (165) lichen (29) beringia (3) bryophyte (2) beringian (1)
Flora of Alaska
Vascular plants of Alaska
During past glaciations, the Bering Land Bridge facilitated the exchange of plant species between Asia and North America. The central position of Alaska as the North American connection to the Bering Land Bridge has made it critical to the immigration of many of the plant lineages that now form the flora of North America. In combination with the North Atlantic Land Bridge, dispersal of species across Alaska has contributed to the flora of the circumpolar north. Additionally, the position of Alaska at the no
Alaska Flora