Monkshood in our front yard – Fairbanks, Alaska, July 2017
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Mixed in with the highbush cranberries in our front yard are a few native monkshood plants. Just one plant appeared a few years ago–don’t know where the seeds came from. There are now two or three plants, tenaciously clinging to existence among the cranberries and associated duff.
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