Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants are red but tart still. Some raspberries are ready but sickly this year. Highbush cranberry berries are beginning to redden. Green rosehips.
June 24
Ester Dome, Ester: Raspberry and roses flowering. Lots of bluebells flowering. Highbush cranberry and red currant have small green berries.
June 14
UAF, Fairbanks: Noticed fireweed blooming on campus.
June 14
Swamp land, Big Lake: Great amount of cloudberry blooming. Roses budding and some opening. Very nice starflower blooming. Dogwood too.
June 17
Ester Dome, Ester: Has been hot statewide and high/extreme fire danger. Rose petals mostly off, some rosehips, lots of rose galls. Tons of wildflowers: tall jacob’s ladder, yellow cinquefoil, dogwood, labrador tea, cotton grass, capitate valarian, etc. Extra lots of bluebell. Raspberry flowering with some green berries. Abundant nagoonberry flowering. Cloudberry finishing flowering. Soapberry ripe. Red currant, crowberry, and highbush/lowbush cranberry have green berries. Nice green blueberries with some purple color.
June 8
Ester Dome, Ester: Wild roses and bluebells fully blooming.
May 31
Big Lake: Wild rose has been flowering for awhile. Also nice dogwood and starflower.
May 18
Ester Dome, Ester: Pollen everywhere, Fairbanks broke world birch pollen record this year apparently. Good spruce tips and red cones (berry-like.) Red currants have small green berries. Blueberries have tons of flowers. Also flowering is highbush cranberry, bluebell, labrador tea, soapberry, nagoonberry, coltsfoot and many wildflowers. Wild rose has no flowers yet.
June 26
Mat-Su: Noticed “first” fireweed blooming, then started seeing it everywhere.
May 12
Talkeetna: Fiddlehead ferns are ready.
Alaska Berry Bog 