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The flora of Greenland consists of a total of 583 species or 614 taxa (species and subspecies) of vascular plants, of which 13 are endemic, and 87 taxa introduced by humans, most of which are naturalized. [1] [page needed] [2] [better source needed]
In northern Greenland, the ground is covered with a carpet of mosses and low-lying shrubs such as dwarf willows and crowberries. Flowering plants in the north include yellow poppy, Pedicularis, and Pyrola. [2] [3] Plant life in southern Greenland is more abundant, and certain plants, such as the dwarf birch and willow, may grow several feet high.
For the purposes of this category, "Greenland" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. That is, the geographic region known as Greenland is defined by its political boundaries and included within the larger geographic region of Subarctic America.
The ecoregion covers the coastal fringe of Greenland, from 75° N latitude at Melville Bay, around the northern coast to 70° N at Scoresby Bay on the east coast. The coastal bands south of this are in the Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra ecoregion. The coast is rugged, although less so than the south, with deep inlets from the sea.
Greenland's flora consists of about 500 species of "higher" plants, such as flowering plants, ferns, horsetails and lycopodiophyta. Of the other groups, the lichens are the most diverse, with about 950 species; there are 600–700 species of fungi; mosses and bryophytes are also found.
Côte-Nord, Quebec, Canada. It is reported from Greenland, as well as from every province and territory in Canada and in the north of the United States including the Northeast (New England, New York, Pennsylvania), the Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho), parts of the Upper Midwest (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota) and Alaska.
Cochlearia groenlandica, known in English as Danish scurvygrass [1] or Greenland scurvy-grass, is a flowering plant of the genus Cochlearia in the family Brassicaceae. Cochlearia groenlandica grows as a solitary plants, the size of the individual plants varying between 1–2 centimetres (0.39–0.79 in) to 15–20 centimetres (5.9–7.9 in) in ...
As a result, the plant's appearance varies; the female catkins are red-coloured, while the male catkins are yellow-coloured. [5] [6] Despite its small size, it is a long-lived plant, growing extremely slowly in the severe arctic climate; one in eastern Greenland was found to be 236 years old. [5] Hybrids with Salix arcticola and Salix glauca ...