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Mountain Avens Dryas octopetala
Other names: arctic dryad, white dryad. The Inuktitut call the avens maliktuq or malikkaan. The French call one of the plants, dryade arctique White Mountain avens, a ground hugging, sun loving shrub, a member of rose family that flourishes on high and rocky grounds in Central & Eastern Arctic. It can be observed on open, rocky or gravelly sites on the eastern edge of the Rockies and along the Arctic shores to Labrador. It is also found in Asia, and on the mountains in Northern Wales, Northern England and Scotland. This 2 3/4 inches tall rose like flower has oblong and toothed dark green leaves that flowers in June and July. The White Mountain avens is the territorial flower of the Northwest Territory Characteristics: This is an attractive, low, evergreen, perennial shrub. Its woody stems trail along the ground and freely root at the joint or knob of a stem, especially a joint where leaves grow. In the North Country people use White Mountain avens in their home rock garden This plant has the leaves on the stems and they will form are in clusters at the bottom of the flower stalks. The blades of the White Mountain avens are dense and leather like. With their oblong or oval shape they grow to about 3/4 of inches to about 1 1/4 inches long. The lower surface of the blade is either round or shaped like a heart. The upper surface is dark green and wrinkled while the bottom is covered with white hairs and rolled edges. The flowers are white and one inch across. The single flower with smooth edges and a somewhat shiny upper surface is from 3/4 to 1 1/4 inches long and eight to ten oval petals surround the many yellow pollen bearing organs of the flower. The eight individual leaves are shaped like a spear. The fruits are two tenths of an inch long single seed center that is tipped with 3/4 to 1 1/4 inch long white or yellow bristles entwined when young and spreading to form a fluffy head when mature like a dandelion. Now let's look at the Eastern Mountain Avens, Geum peckii. The Eastern Mountain avens has been put on the endangered species list of Wildlife in Canada. Description The Eastern Mountain Avens is a leafy flower that continues to flower and endure throughout the year or for many years, reaches a height of eight to fifteen inches tall. The leaves are basal and compound with one large leaf, and several many smaller ones. The budding stem of this avens bears one to five white, saucer shaped yellow flowers with about nine petals. The seed plumes mature into round seed heads. Go To Page: 1 2 |
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