Plant Adaptations
Arctic Poppy
-Leaves stay green throughout the winter.
-Grow in clumps to protect themselves from the cold and wind.
-Dish like flowers that follow the sun in order to get maximum solar heat.
-Grow in clumps to protect themselves from the cold and wind.
-Dish like flowers that follow the sun in order to get maximum solar heat.
Caliergon Giganteum
This moss can live underwater in lakes and bogs on land.
-Rhizoids instead of roots.
-Lots of tiny leaves for photosynthesis.
-Can reproduce by spores or shoots.
-Slowest growing longest living plant in the tundra, meaning it lives through the short growing season of other plants.
-Living underwater it is protected from wind.
-Rhizoids instead of roots.
-Lots of tiny leaves for photosynthesis.
-Can reproduce by spores or shoots.
-Slowest growing longest living plant in the tundra, meaning it lives through the short growing season of other plants.
-Living underwater it is protected from wind.
Dwarf Willow
-Grow less than a knee high due to the fact that they cannot grow their roots out.
Arctic Crocus
-Hairs on the stems help to trap heat near the plant and acts as protection from wind.
-Small leaves retain moisture.
-Small leaves retain moisture.
Cotton Grass
-Seeds are dispersed by means of the wind
Lichen
-Able to stop metabolic processes in extremely cold weather.
-Dark coloration helps them absorb heat.
-Able to absorb moisture from snow and ice.
-Able to cling onto and grow on objects with little nutrients (rocks).
-Do not grow tall bee of lack of nutrients and as protection from the wind.
-Short roots do not permeate the permafrost.
-Dark coloration helps them absorb heat.
-Able to absorb moisture from snow and ice.
-Able to cling onto and grow on objects with little nutrients (rocks).
-Do not grow tall bee of lack of nutrients and as protection from the wind.
-Short roots do not permeate the permafrost.