Rare and Sensitive Plant Species

Maintaining accurate accounts of rare and sensitive species is critical to the preservation of Denali’s biodiversity. Rare species, while they may be infrequently encountered, can play important roles in the ecosystems and local environments they occupy.

The list of rare and sensitive plants below only concerns the area within Denali National Park and Preserve’s boundaries, as species included here are not necessarily rare throughout their range.

 

Pallas' wallflower

NPS Photo / Jacob W. Frank

• Allium schoenoprasum – wild chives
• Amerorchis rotundifolia – roundleaf orchid
• Calypso bulbosa – fairy slipper
• Cypripedium guttatum – spotted lady’s slipper
• Douglasia gormani – Gorman’s dwarf-primrose
• Erysimum pallasii – Pallas’ wallflower
• Festuca lenensis – tundra fescue
• Papaver alboroseum – pale poppy
• Salix setchelliana – Setchell’s willow
• Stellaria alaskana – Alaska starwort
• Stellaria dicranoides – matted starwort