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The plants are spreading and are wider than they are tall, but they are not extensive above the ground. The plant will grow for many years before it is ready to begin its first reproductive cycle. The plant actively grows only during the limited period when enough warmth and sunlight are available for photosynthesis, but may begin this cycle ...
Alpine plants are adapted to the harsh conditions of the alpine environment, which include low temperatures, dryness, ultraviolet radiation, wind, drought, poor nutritional soil, and a short growing season. Some alpine plants serve as medicinal plants. Alpine meadows in the Kazbegi National Park, Georgia
Gagea serotina, synonym Lloydia serotina, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant of the lily family. [3] It is widespread across the mountainous parts of western North America, from Alaska to New Mexico, and in Europe is found in the Alps, the Carpathians and the mountains of Bulgaria, as well as in Great Britain.
An alpinum adjacent to the King's House on Schachen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. An alpine garden (or alpinarium, alpinum) is a domestic or botanical garden, or more often a part of a larger garden, specializing in the collection and cultivation of alpine plants growing naturally at high altitudes around the world, such as in the Caucasus, Pyrenees, Rocky Mountains, Alps, Himalayas and ...
Silene acaulis, known as moss campion [2] or cushion pink, is a small wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and tundra and in high mountains of Eurasia and North America (Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenees, British Isles, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Rocky Mountains).
Phippsia is a genus of Arctic and alpine plants in the grass family. [2] The genus is named in honour of Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave, 1744-1792 [3] a Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer, and is commonly known as ice grass or snow grass. Species [4] [5] [6] [7]
An Alpine is a plant that occurs in the region above the tree line and below permanent snow in mountainous regions. Within temperate and boreal regions, the alpine zone can be subdivided into three zones, each with characteristic vegetation types: Lower alpine, with bush and tall herb communities; Middle alpine, in which sedges, grasses and heath species dominate; and, Upper alpine, with dwarf ...
Poa alpina, commonly known as alpine meadow-grass [1] or alpine bluegrass, [2] [3] is a species of grass with a primarily holarctic distribution. [ 4 ] It is noted for being pseudoviviparous : in place of seeds, it sometimes reproduces asexually, creating new plantlets in the spikelets.