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is a low-growing, densely or loosely matted plant growing up to 5 cm (2 in) high, with somewhat woody branches of creeping or trailing habit close to the surface. The leaves are small, rounded, scale-like, opposite in four rows with ciliated margins. The flowers are solitary on short
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1334:Territorial symbols of Nunavut
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632:Official Flower of Nunavut
16:Species of flowering plant
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447:Hultén – native to Alaska
199:purple mountain saxifrage
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371:by William Catto (1916)
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911:Saxifraga oppositifolia
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451:Saxifraga oppositifolia
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434:Saxifraga oppositifolia
408:, a symbolic flower of
394:Saxifraga oppositifolia
355:Saxifraga oppositifolia
343:Gynaephora groenlandica
338:Saxifraga oppositifolia
271:Saxifraga oppositifolia
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240:Saxifraga oppositifolia
225:Saxifraga oppositifolia
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141:S. oppositifolia
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332:Species interactions
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229:Kaffeklubben Island
205:and also some high
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418:County Londonderry
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235:Description
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1288:Categories
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568:"Template"
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472:References
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800:Mayflower
750:Wild rose
743:Provinces
617:0029-8549
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291:Greenland
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