Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Svalbard 2025 Flora

 Flora of Svalbard July 2025, mostly vascular.

Websites used to determine plane names.

Locations given in Degrees Minutes Seconds format (DMS).

  Seen on Longyearbyrn walk (78°13'15"N, 15°38'50"E)

yellow marsh saxifrage, Saxifrage hirculus

July 20 Camp Barentz

78°10'12"N, 16°0'36"E

Tourist Camp on the Island of Spitsbergen, southeast of Longyearbyrn

Mouse-ear Chickweed, Cerastium

Alpine bistort, Bistorta vivipara


July 21 Ny-Alesund - Scientific Research Village

 78°55′30″N, 11°55′20″E

Moss campion, Silene acaulis

July 22 Smeerenburg

79°43′54″N, 10°59′42″E

Morning landing, a whaling station in the past.

Sea Life

Afternoon landing in Alicehamna bay (79°45'0"N, 12°18'0"E)

Saxifrage

Mountain Sorrel, Oxyria digyna

Mouse-ear Chickweed, Cerastium

?

 
Eight petal Mountain-avens, Dryas octopetala

Snowbed willow, Salix herbacea

July 23 Jotunkjeldene in Bockfjorden

79°20′N, 13°00′E

Morning landing, hot springs at the top of the hill. 

Alpine bistort, Bistorta vivipara

Saxifrage


Draba?

July 25 Kinnvika

80°2′53″N, 18°13′15"E

Morning landing  

Cochlearia

 
Drooping saxifraga, Saxifraga cernua

Draba corymbosa?

Saxifraga cespitosa

Arctic poppy, Papaver radicatum

 
Purple Mountain saxifrage, Saxifraga oppositifolia

July 26 Boltodden

 77°30'0"N, 18°15'0"E

Afternoon landing



Arctic Buttercup, Rannunculus arcticus

tufted alpine saxifrage, Saxifrage cespitosa ?

 
Mouse-ear Chickweed, Caryophyllaceae

Moss family, Orthotrichum ?

 

July 27 Gnalodden

 77°1'0"N and 15°54'0"E 

Afternoon landing

Saxifrage

Carpet of moss

July 28 Bamsebu

 77°55'47''N, 21°45'14''E

Morning landing 

 

Alpine bistort, Bistorta Vivipara

 Varsolbukta

 77°45′0″N, 14°21′0″E

Afternoon landing 

Saxifraga svalbardensis

Alpine Poppy, Papaver radicatum





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