Rose-root (Sedum rosea) has also been cultivated to grow in gardens.

Purple Saxifrage flowers when the snow carpet has (nearly) melted.

Yellow Mountains-Saxifrage has usually yellow flowers, but occasionally two other variants are seen.

Glacier Buttercup flowers on the raw soil exposed when the glacier retreats during the summer.

Mossy Mountain-heather , the timid flower, is a common mountain decoration.

Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala) is an evergreen shrub seen as large mats on high dry grounds.

Alpine Hawkweed (Hieracium alpinum). Two lonely flowers...

Autumnal Hawkbit A single beauty 1300 meters above sea level.

Rock Speedwell , the transient beauty. Tomorrow, or maybe the day after, it'll be gone.

Whitlow-grass. The family name is Draba, but the species of this family are often elusive.

Lapland Diapensia. The Norwegian name is fjellpryd, meaning mountain decoration.

Oeder's Lousewort may be an abundant and very beautiful spring flower on base-rich soil.

Norwegian Wormwood or Mugwort is very rare

Arctic Cotton-grass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri).

Common Butterwort, a carnivorous plant, thrives in the mountains as well as in the lowlands.

Chlamydomonas nivalis, a green algae here in a snowball (suitable for throwing).