I hiked from Harbor Mountain over to Gavan Hill and down Gavan Hill Trail to town last Monday and noticed many flowers in bloom along the way. Here is a list of the different ones I saw (most of which I was fairly confident about identifying).
- Ground dogwood (Cornus canadensis)
- Stream violet (Viola glabella)
- Clasping Twistedstalk (Streptopus amplexifolius)
- Rosy Twistedstalk (S. roseus)
- Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
- White Mountain Heather (Cassiope mertensiana)
- Alaska Mountain Heather (C. stelleriana)
- Deer Cabbage (Fauria crista-galli)
- Caltha-leaved Aven (Geum calthifolium)
- Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.)
- Narcissus Anemone (Anemone narcissiflora)
- Tall Mountain Shootingstar (Dodecatheon jeffreyi)
- Sitka Valerian (Valeriana sitchensis)
- Lupine (Lupinus sp.)
- Unidentified aster family
- Northern Geranium (Gerianium erianthum)
- False Azalea (Menziesia ferruginea)
- Alaska Saxifrage (Saxifraga ferruginea)
- Bittercress
- Foam flower (Tiarella trifoliata)
- Hornemann’s Willowherb (Epilobium hornemannii)
- Siberian Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia sibirica)
- Chocolate Lily (Fritillaria camschatcensis)
- Unalaska Paintbrush (Castilleja unalaschcensis)
- Trailing Raspberry (Rubus pedatus)
- Red Paintbrush (Castilleja sp.)
- Alaska Violet (Viola langsdorfii)
- Wedge-leaf Primrose (Primula cuniefolia ssp. saxifragifolia)
- Alpine Azalea (Loiseleuria procumbens)
- Fern-leaved Goldthread (Coptis asplenifolia)
- Single Delight (Moneses uniflora)
- Deerheart (Maianthemum dilatatum)
- Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens)
- Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum)
- Western Bog Laurel (Kalmia microphylla)
- Northern Star Flower (Trientalis arctica)
- Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
- Pacific Crabapple (Malus fusca)
- Western Mountain Ash (Sorbus scopulina)
There were at least two different species of blueberry, and probably more. In addition, some western columbine (Aquilegia formosa) had large buds out, but they were not yet open.