Frozen plants



 

Frozen plants


Do plants grow in the Arctic?

NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, it is bitterly cold and dark in the Arctic for nine months in a year. But for the remaining summer months. it is daylight most of the time. It is in this short period that more than 900 types of plants bloom in the Arctic.

Total daylight in the Arctic summer

In the Arctic, the sun sets for only a few hours around mid-night, resulting in total daylight. During the year - long rotation of the earth that tilts towards the sun, receives direct daylight. In the Arctic summer, the Earth reaches that point where the North pole is tilting most towards the sun, hence the daylight.

Arctic trees shorter than daisies



Willow trees in the Arctic region are shorter than daisies, because of the fierce Arctic wind. Even it they are rarely taller than 10 cm, they grow along the ground.

Arctic plants and skulls


In the Arctic regions, plants depend on animal remains for its nutrition, and at times Arctic flowers bloom inside the skull.

Arctic plants melt snow


Some of the Arctic plants have dark plants have dark leaves and stems. So that in the sun their dark color can soak up the suns warmth and melt the snow

How do plants pollinate without bees?

With very few bees and butterflies in the Arctic region, Artic flowers like mustard, rely on the wind while other rely on flies to scatter their pollen. As files are color blind, most of the flowers are white or yellow.

Tundra region


Tundra is the cold regions where large trees do not grow. Only dwarf trees, shrubs such as heathers, grasses and other small plants grow here. Tundra regions covers vast areas in the north of Canada, Siberia and Scandinavia and Greenland. Tundra is on high mountains too.

Evergreen arctic plants


Leaves grown the previous summer are protected by dead leaves during winter months.

Plant life in Antarctica


Antarctica mostly snow covered all round the year, and very few plants can live here. However fungi and lichen grow within 500 km of the south pole, and two species of flowering plants also thrive in Antarctica.

Pink snow in Antarctica

Some algae live just below the surface of the snow, cannot bear the UV rays from the sun and so protect themselves with red pigment. This red pigment of the algae turns the snow pink.

Arctic bloom



Tall trees cannot survive in the cold Arctic tundra, but in the brief summer season grasses and sedges, mosses and lichens thrive, as various small flower such as saxifrages, ovens and Arctic poppies bloom.

 

  

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