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Heads
of Cotton Grass make wet slopes and bogs appear white in August (Reddish Cotton Grass – Eriophorum
russeolum - on picture). |
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Large
fields of cotton-grass develop on mud flats of large rivers; its fruits
disperse far with wind. |
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Little
Lagotis (Lagotis minor) is a typical plant of practically all
tundra types, and especially abundant near
the snowfields. |
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Tiny
Buttercup (Ranunculus pygmaeus)
grows in places, where snow remains for a long time. |
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Creeping
Pink (Dianthus repens) is
observed rather rarely on sands of large rivers' terraces. |
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Arctic
sandwort (Minuartia arctica) is
common in dry and moderately wet tundra, and develops in pincushion on mountain slopes (photo by E.B. Pospelova). |
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Tundra
Dandelion, in contrast to that of boreal zone, is one of the most late-blooming plants. An Arctic White Dandelion. |
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Swollfruiting
Dandelion (Taraxacum phymatocarpum)
grows on limestone rocks of the Byrranga as well as on deposits of marine
clays in foothill zone. |