Geocaulon lividum

the false toadflax is blooming, May 16 2017.
This one found at teapot ponds, but it is very common around here, and i saw it coming into bloom the last few days.
I call it timberberry,
but it's prettiest name is northern comandra
 comandra meaning hairy calyx lobes

Juniperus horizontalis

Yes! a few days ago, the male flowers released their pollen and yesterday i finally found, on a different plant (dioecious) a few female flowers with a last year berry ( which is not a true berry) and a two year old  ripe, blue, berry on the same branch.

April 29, 2017

Along the Takhini river, on the Kusawa road

and male flowers releasing pollen on April 25, 2017

same place

crowberry/mossberry

April 21, 2017

I put a sprig in a vase on wednesday, and picked on April 19 like this

Empetrum nigrum subsp. hermaphroditum update May 21 2017: The E.nigrum is now past blooming in the wild, it flowered the first week of May. Yesterday  i noticed how the plant has now light green/whitish buds, looking like flower buds, but they are the leave buds.

Cornus canadensis

2017 09 06

Kusawa ridge 

June 29, 2016
Not very common here, but i found this one along Elfin creek here.

I learn we have two kinds of bunchberries in the yukon

Petals cream proximally, purple distally; hypanthium densely hairy; distalmost leaves much larger than those at 2 more proximal nodes.

6 Cornus unalaschkensis

 and

Petals cream; leaves at 2d node from apex non-chlorophyllous, scalelike; sepals cream, membranous, apices rounded.

4 Cornus canadensis

The following one in Skagway, and  an Cornus unalaschkensis

 note the purple tips on the petals

and the leafs on the stem

The next  ones a Cornus canadensis 

 

along the Kusawa road, June 21 2017

pumpkin berry

Or as i call it timberberry. it's Latin name Geocaulon lividum

As i crawled over the forest floor to collect little pumpkins to decorate my pie for Thanksgiving. I was surprised to find so few. Yet the once i did find had transformed in perfect little pumkins, as oppossed to there more evenly rounder form in the summer.

Rubus chamaemorus

picking berries all weekend, (middle of July 2015)

raspberries ( top corners)
northern black currants
strawberries

and the the droplets are two cloud berries ( Rubus chamaemorus) they taste good the way i picked them, red, but they should turn orange while ripening more.

Nagoon berry

There are always surprises

On July 1 2014 i came upon a Nagoon berry that first looked the same, but today looking at the pictures it turns out to be a different subspecies then the one that grows around my place.

Rubus arcticus ssp stellatus

Three Guardsmen BC