Checklist: Common Sedges, Showy Flowers, and Other Plants of Cook Inlet

Fireweed's Dena’ina name: ‘Niłdghuligi’ “Joined together” (Outer Cook Inlet dialect)

NPS Photo/D. Liles

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)