Mountain Plants of the British Isles: An Introduction to Our Native Arctic-alpine Flora |
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20 cm tall acid soils alpina Alpine Alpine Clubmoss Alps arctic and subarctic arctic-alpine plants basal rosette base-rich soils Ben Lawers British Isles central Europe central Scotland cliffs Countryside Act 1981 crevices Cwm Idwal D. K. Mardon Alpine D. K. Mardon Mountain dense tufts Diapensia Dwarf Cudweed Flora flowering period flowers open form dense forms mats fronds glaciation grassland gravel Greenland H. S. Pardoe habitats high altitude Hoary Whitlowgrass icesheets July June and August Lake District listed on Schedule mats or tufts mountain plants mountain rocks mountains of central North America north Wales northern England northern Europe Norway occurs open between June Parish perennial plant petals pink preferring calcareous soils Pyrenees rare plants reaching altitudes rock ledges Saxifrage Saxifraga Scandinavia Scottish Scottish Asphodel scree slopes screes sea-level Siberia Snowdonia southern species grows Spring Sandwort stout taproot subarctic Europe taproot temperatures Tufted Hair-grass Tutin usually western Ireland Wildlife and Countryside woody