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Flowers of the highlands |
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Mountain flowers are lonely jewels on a barren ground. These plants live in an environment that to us may seem hostile, but try to move one of them to a lower region, and it'll most likely perish in the struggle between species. |
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| Dryas octopetala – eight petals. This plant lends its name to the Dryas periods. The Younger Dryas was a thousand years long cold period some ten thousand years ago. The northern hemisphere had for a few thousand years been warming up after the ice age when the temperature in Northern Europe dropped and the climate became suitable only for plants like this one. |