Pasque Flower

Anemone patens

This plants flower colors can range from dark lavender to almost white. This plants fruit is a plum. You can normally find this flower on a southward facing slope. Like all tundra plants this flower grows close to the ground.

Monkshood

Monkshood(Aconitum dephinifolium)Poisonous blue hood-shaped flowers. The flowers are about 1 inch in length. Stems range from about 1 to 4 feet in length. The leaves are broad with coarse, toothed lobes.Bloom between June and September.

Lupine

Lupine(Lupinus arcticus) 10 to 16" tall with pointed leaflets and have long stems large, full flower stalks.The flowers look wooly and are blue to dark-blue.known to cause poisoning in animals.

Goldthread

Goldhread(Coptis trifolia)5 - 15 cm tall, 3 leaves and leafless flower stalks from a thread-like yellow rhizome with shiny, green, leaflets.

Northern Bluebell

The Northern Bluebell's flowers appear in mid summer, and they appear in clusters. The flowers can be blue pink or white and are shaped like bells.

Rosebay Willowherb plant

Rosebay Willowherb (Epilobium angustifolium) is reddish brownish straight, smooth, and is about1½-8 feet high with scattered leaves and two pink petals.Found in cold weather and used by Native Americans as erbs.

Arctic Poppy

Papaver radicatum

• Ranges from 6 to 12 inches.



• The flowers can range from almost any shade of yellow, pink, or white.



• These flowers can bloom anywhere from late spring to mid summer.

cloudberry

The cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), grows to 10-25 cm high. The leaves change between having 5 and 7 soft, handlike lobes on straight, branchless stalks.
Unlike most Rubus species, the cloudberry does not self-pollinate. Pollination requires a plant of the opposite sex.

Arctic Willow

Salix arctica

The Arctic Willow has oval shaped leaves and can grow in many different fashions. The Salix arctica flowers are just spikes and they don't have petals. This plant's roots are very shallow due to the frozen ground. Some of these plants have created pestisides to eliminate insects eating them.

Caribou moss

• Caribou moss grows in arctic and northern regions around the world. It grows on the ground and on rocks.
• It looks like a foamy, gray-green spongy mass, and grows to be 1 to 4 inches high. The stems, or stocks, are hollow, and branch out many times. Although it is called caribou moss, it is actually a lichen.
• Lichen can survive for long periods of time without water. They just dry out and go dormant when there is little water or light. They can begin to grow again even after very long periods of dormancy.Animals such as Reindeer and Caribou feed on lichen during the coldest periods of the season.

Labrador tea plant

• Common Name: St. Jame's Tea, Marsh Tea, Swamp Tea, Hudson's Bay TeaCommon Name: St. Jame's Tea, Marsh Tea, Swamp Tea, Hudson's Bay Tea
• Labrador tea plant grows to be 4 to 5 feet.It has woolly branches with narrow 1 to 2 inch leaves which are smooth on the upper side, with rusty hairs underneath. They droop slightly and edges are rolled under, and are a leathery green in color.
• the leaves are brewed for tea. The tea is veryrich in vitamin C. They were also scattered among clothes to keep moths away. Branches kept with grain are said to keep mice away.
• they grow inwet meadows, bogs, and forest areas mostly in the lower latitudes of the tundra biome. Bees are attracted to the flowers, but animals don't eat them because they are said to be slightly poisonous.
  
  

Diamond-leaf Willow

• The twigs on a willow are soft, skinny, and they bend easily. A willow has thin branches. The leaves on the willow are narrow and grow alternately on the branch. Some leaves have serrated edges to.
• It reduces fever and relieves pain and inflammation. Chinese physicians have been using willow bark to relieve pain for 2,000 years.
• Sura is 10 times richer in vitamin C than oranges. It is also rich in vitamin A and calcium. Willow leaves are a good source of nutrients for animals and people of the tundra.

Arctic Moss

Calliergon giganteum
Arctic Moss is a water plant that grows in the bottom of lake beds. They have rhizoids istead of roots. Some years this plant will not grow more than a centimeter. When this plant is not growing it stores energy to make new leaves in the right season.

Bearberry

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

• The Bearberry is a low growing plant with oval shaped leaves.


• These plants bloom between March and June.


• They get there name because it is a diet for the bear.


• These plants can survive in the Tundra because they grow in unnutrient dry areas, and they have silky hairs that help keep them warm.

Pasque Flower

• Anemone patens
• Pasque flower has several stems that rise 6-8 inches off the ground. On each stem is one flower with 5-8 petals.
• The plant only grows on southward facing slopes and is common throughout northwestern U.S. up to northern Alaska.
• Pasque flower is useful to treat eye diseases like cataracts, which is opacity on the lens of the eye, which can cause partial or complete blindness.

Tufted Saxifrage

• Common Name: Saxifrage caespitosa
• Tufted Saxifrage is a small perennial that grow in thick in the tundra. It has several straight flower stems which can get 3-15 cm high. The leaves are jagged and hairy and only 5-10 mm long. Their tips divide into 3 lobes.
• Saxifrages like cool weather
• The Saxifrage has a well built underground root system for storing carb"s
• Saxifrage grows on the rocky slopes of the tundra. It can be found from Alaska to the Cascade and Olympic Mountains and northwestern Oregon