Wednesday 8 August 2012

Wildflowers at Hebron

19 July 2012.
One reason that it's hard to identify plants from photos here
is that they're all mixed up.  Here the biggest leaves are cloudberry
/ bakeapple, the white flower is a chickweed (Cerastium
fontanum?), and the purple flower looks like dwarf fireweed.
Ditto.
Harebells, Campanula rotundifolium.
Insects like cup shaped flowers to keep warm.
Poppy, but probably not arctic poppy. 

More poppies.
Willows with seed catkins.
These grow along the ground, not more than 15 cm high. 
Labrador tea adds its scent to the low-Arctic tundra.
The predominant leaves here are Arctic birch
Cloudberry on a cloudberry plant. 
Northern goldenrod, Solidago multiradiata.
Poppy and chickweed.
Orange lichen on rocks, especially where fertilized by birds, commonly
near sea, is jewel lichen or sunburst lichen, Xanthoria spp.

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