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Lowenfels Family Nature Trail and Trail Guide
 The
1.1-mile trail is accessible at the south side of the garden, southwest
of the Herb Garden. It travels through a variety of plant communities,
down to Campbell Creek where you might see salmon, and past views
of the Chugach Range. There are 2 sets of stairs along the trail.
You will find a printed trail guide at the trail beginning and interpretive
signs along the trail describing native plants, several geologic features,
and several cultural features along the trail. |
High
Bush Cranberry Illustration by Cara Wardlaw-Bailey |
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of interest along the trail are: |
- Iditarod
Trail
- Horsetail
- Equisetum arvense
- High Bush
Cranberry - Viburnum edule
- Broomrape
- Boschniakia rossica
- Devil's Club
- Echinopanax horridum
- Spruce Beetle:
A villain or just doing its job?
- Bracket fungi
- Polyporus betulina
- Fool's Huckleberry
- Menziesia ferruginea
- Ostrich Fern
- Matteuccia struthiopteris
- Oak Fern
- Gymnocarpium dryopteris
- Lady Fern
- Athyrium filix-femina
- Willow dinner
- Shifting
Shorelines - Ice Age Debris
- Chugach Mountains
- Border Ranges Fault
- Pink Flowered
Wintergreens - Pyrola asarifolia
- Sidebell
Wintergreens - Prola secunda
- Fox Holes
- Grass Meadow
- Bluejoint
Grass - Calamagrostis canadensis
- Berries and
Bears
- Spiny Club
Moss - Lycopodium annotinum
- Creeping
Jennie Club Moss - Lycopodium complanatum
- A Free Ride
- Glacial Erratic
- Stairstep
Moss - Hylocomium splendens
- Hairycap
Moss - Polytrichum juniperinium
- Wall Moss
- Pleurozium schreberi
- Paper Birch
- Betula papyrifera
- Labrador
Tea - Ledum palustre
- Dwarf Dogwood
- Cornus canadensis
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