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Diapensia lapponica

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In places such as Newfoundland an early June and later, (often) August blooming period occurs on different plants. It is not known if this is a genetic or environmental affect. Two blooming periods are known for other plants. It often involves flower buds being formed in the present or previous year
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is extremely slow and low-growing and cannot compete with plants that overtop it. The plant is very sensitive to higher temperatures and so is often in misty foggy habitat. It usually dies when transplanted to lowland gardens and so this is not recommended. Cold-treated or wild and winter-collected
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among stones on the ridge between the summit of Sgùrr an Utha and the adjoining hill called Fraoch-bheinn, at 760–780 metres (2,490–2,560 ft) above sea-level. Its total extent at this site is less than 5,000 square metres (1.2 acres). A total of 1,200 clumps or mats have been counted, and
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It flowers at this site in May or June, the exact time varying from year to year. Some sources state that the species is found at a second site, but recent sources state that this is not the case.
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Guide to Standard Floras of the World: an Annotated, Geographically Arranged Systematic Bibliography of the Principal Floras, Enumerations, Checklists, and Chorological Atlases of Different Areas
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was one of a trio of Arctic plants discovered in Scotland in the early 1950s. Although no new species to Britain had been discovered in Scotland since Victorian times, in 1950, the Arctic plant
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The ranges of these two subspecies do not meet in north central Canada, and possibly not in central Siberia, so they are believed to be dispersing east and west from different glacial refugia.
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Manual of the botany of the northern United States. Including Virginia, Kentucky, and all east of the Mississippi: arranged according to the natural system
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about the flora of Lapland has been called "the first proto-modern flora". However, sources disagree on how Linnaeus might have derived the genus name,
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It could be aged by counting growth-rings or clump diameter, and on this basis, many Canadian plants are thought to live to over a century or two.
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taken on 14 June 1952 (soon after the initial discovery) is held by the St Andrews University Library.
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suggested that term is from Greek,"deeply grieving or mourning; probably from its situation".
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Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, Universal Dictionary of arts, Sciences, and Literature
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The plants grow on exposed rocky ridges that are kept free from snow by high winds.
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monitoring since 1980 has not detected any change in this population.
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The plant is listed in the 3rd edition of the British vascular plant
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seed will germinate indoors. The seed and leaves are high in lipids.
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states that the term was derived from the ancient Greek name of the
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See also the thesis by R. Day at Memorial University Newfoundland
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Preston, C. D.; D. A. Pearman & T. D. Dines (2002).
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Day R.T and Scott P.J. 1981. Autecological aspects of
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Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Asterids
Ericales
Diapensiaceae
Diapensia
Binomial name
L.
Diapensiaceae
circumboreal
Diapensia
D. purpurea
cushion
evergreen
perennial
shrub
North America
Greenland
Scotland
Scandinavia
Arctic
Russia
Arctic
Russia
Korea

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