AMC needs your help to document alpine flowering times across the Northeast this spring and summer and especially during June; which is Flower Watch Month.
How to monitor:
- Obtain the field guide and data sheet that match your level of plant identification experience by downloading one of the pdf file below, request the materials to be mailed to you (include the words "Basic Alpine" or "Detailed Alpine" in the subject line), or obtain at a New Hampshire AMC destination.
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- (6 pages) Print double sided. (read this printing & folding hint)
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- Go to any of the alpine areas listed in table below
- Staying on the trail, locate a targeted alpine plant (see field guide)
- Record on data sheet date, detailed location and which flower stage(s) the target plant is displaying.
- Return data sheet to AMC. It's that simple!
If you want to be more involved then sign up for our Mountain Watch Adopt-A-Peak monitoring program.
Where should you hike and monitor?
| Maine Peaks | New Hampshire Peaks | Vermont Peaks | New York Peaks |
| Katahdin Range | Mount Monadnock | Mount Mansfield | Mount Abraham |
| The Mahoosucs | Mount Cardigan | Camel's Hump | Whiteface |
| The Baldpates | Mount Moosilauke | Mount Abraham | Mount Marcy |
| The Bigelows | Franconia Ridge | | Algonquin |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | South Twin | | |
| Saddleback Mountain | Mount Chocorua | | |
| Mount Abraham (Abram) | Presidential Range | | |
| Mount Desert | Mount Hight | | |
| | South Baldface | | |
These are suggestions. Any alpine area in the Northeast is likely to have 1 or more of the target species and is acceptable.
Contact AMC's Alpine Ecologist for more information AMCmtnwatch@outdoors.org
