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

Elaeagnus commutata

It was the sweet scent of the flowers that stopped us in out tracks

Aishihik road

Baneberry

Actaea rubra
-POISONOUS-
June  22 2014
on the trail up to Granite mnt. along the Haines road
I have seen  a lot of Baneberries closer to the coast. (past the summit and Haines Alaska)
and earlier this month i saw them blooming on the island along the Millennium Trail in Whithorse

saskatoon berries blooming

Amelanchier alnifolia

May 30 2014

on the mountain behind Mendenhall subdivision

the bushes stay small here but bloom prolifically 

Arctous rubra

Arctous rubra
red bearberry
May 10 2014
Moose Skull Lake, Mendenhall subdivision

arctous - northern or land of  bears

 Previously I have called it Arctostaphylos rubra
Kinnikinnik is an arctostaphylos, The Arctous has leaves with winged stalkes, blunt toothed margins, anthers without horns or awns, and juicy rather than mealy berries.

In the Yukon we also have Arctous alpina, A. alpina has hairs on the leaf stems,

and the leaves are smaller, 

and  

Arctous ruba; bare branches

Arctous alpina; persistant old leaves