Alpine Flowers and Plants
The special flowers and plants that appear in the alpine climate are usually small and precious.
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West Peak / Metacomet Trail - Bluebell Sihouette This cluster of Bluebells survives in a very harsh environment with poor soil, battered by winds and rain. See also… 5/28/2005 |
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West Peak / Metacomet Trail - Bluebells The Bluebell (also known as the Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia) is a herb, comfortable in the poor soils of cliff tops, alpine environments, and shorelines. See also… 5/28/2005 |
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Airline and Israel Ridge Trail - Trail Foliage Probably a Diapensia, maroon foliage nests in the crevices between the lichenous rocks of the Airline. These plants for tight communities that are like springy domes, probably sheltering a variety of alpine insects and arthropods. See also… 5/20/2005 |
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Lonesome Lake Trail - Circumpolar Bluet Caught by Sundew The sundew grows in nutrient poor soil, like this peat bog, and supplements its meager gleanings from the soil with the bodies of small insects that are trapped by the sticky material of the hairs on its leaves. But the damselfly (in this case, the "Circumpolar Bluet" (Enallagma cyanigerum)) is unusually and perhaps unsuitably large for the plant, and in any event was rescued by the photographer immediately after the photo was taken. See also… 7/30/2003 |
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Nancy Cascades - Sundew on Stone These sundew are able to survive on the stone at the top of the falls as a result of the ability to gain additional nutrients from insects trapped in the sticky fluid they excrete from the hairs on their pads. The insects then decompose and are absorbed through the cells of the pads. See also… 7/27/2003 |
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