10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOUNTAIN AVENS»
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mountain avens in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mountain avens and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Native Trees, Shrubs, & Vines: A Guide to Using, Growing, ...
A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants
William Cullina. Dryas octopetala. White mountain avens holds its pure white
blooms proudly above mats of foliage on long, slender stems. As the flowers turn
to seed ...
2
Alaska Trees and Shrubs
... 2 to 2.5 cm across, composed of saucerlike or convex base (hypanthium); calyx
of eight to ten persistent sepals; eight to ten widely spreading, white petals (pale
yellow and slightly spreading in Drum- mond mountain avens, D. drummondii); ...
3
Appalachian Wildflowers
Roan Mountain Avens Geum radiatum Michx. Rose Family Rosaceae Avens (
Geum species) are small plants with large, simple or compound leaves; their cup-
shaped flowers have 5 petals that are usually yellow, but in some species are
pink, ...
Thomas Ellsworth Hemmerly, 2000
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CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference
9212. (1) Drosera spatulata; (2) SUNDEW; (4) Australia 9213. (1) Drosera
whitakerii; (2) SUNDEW; (4) Australia 9231. 9214. (1) Dryandra cordata; (3)
proteaceae 9215. (1) Dryas drummondii; (2) YELLOW MOUNTAIN- AVENS,
YELLOW MT.
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Colorado's Best Wildflower Hikes: The High Country
Knee- high willows lead the path into an area where expanding colonies of
mountain dryad or white mountain-avens stabilize the gravelly soil. A member of
the rose family like cousin alpine avens, this creamy wildflower typically sports
about ...
6
Plants of Kananaskis Country in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta
Mountain avens are creeping, prostrate shrubs bearing evergreen leaves with
scalloped, rolled margins, or entire. The flowers are solitary on leafless, hairy
scapes; sepals number 8 to 10 and are narrow; petals number 8 to 10 and are
white ...
Beryl Hallworth, Chendanda Chengappa Chinnappa, 1997
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Rocky
Mountain Wildflowers
With the advent of extensive glacier formation, the ranges of many of these
Holarctic species became permanently disrupted and limited — but not that of
mountain avens or dryad. Today it is scattered throughout the arctic and alpine
tundra of ...
8
Rocky
Mountain: A Vistor's Companion
... to be coarse textured, and wind frequently removes winter snow cover,
exposing plants to the full blast of gales. Fellfield communities are dominated by
mat- forming and cushionlike plants such as phlox, rock jasmine, and mountain
avens.
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The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of ...
J. B. Mountain Avens, with large yellow Flowers. 3. Caryophyllata ; montana;
purpurra. Ger. Emac. Mountain Avens, with purple Flowers. 4. Caryophyllata;
montana; fiore luteo nutante. C. B. Mountain Avens, with yellow bending Flowers.
f.
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Mountain Sheep of North America
Shrubs and forbs, primarily willows with smaller amounts of mountain avens (
Dryas spp.), fleabane (Erigeron spp.), blueberry, crowberry (Empetrum nigrum),
and others, made up about 17% of the annual diet. Lichens, mostly reindeer
moss ...
Raul Valdez, Paul R. Krausman, 1999
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOUNTAIN AVENS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mountain avens is used in the context of the following news items.
The four thousand footers of Baxter State Park
On the way I pass Mountain Avens, Diapensia, Cranberry in its pre-flowering stage, and the resilient Bunchberry. Long views to the east, north, ... «Lewiston Sun Journal, Jul 15»
Protect Scotland's wild land
And towards the end of a brilliant day, a patch of mountain avens, its arctic -alpine flowers tracking the sun. But I have just found out that area ... «Herald Scotland, May 15»
Denali's unusually diverse flora may be rooted in the last ice age
The boreal forest has been established in Denali Park for more than 7,000 years, not very long compared to the grasses, mountain avens and ... «Alaska Dispatch News, May 15»
Denali plants more diverse up high
The boreal forest has been established in Denali Park for more than 7,000 years, not very long compared to the grasses, mountain avens and ... «Valdez Star, May 15»
Gardening: Geums
Tall, graceful geums like these work well in the middle or towards the back of a border, but G montanum, the alpine or mountain avens, is the ... «Herald Scotland, May 15»
Going native with wildflowers
Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala) is a native Welsh alpine. Photograph: Alamy. Friday 24 April 2015 04.00 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Nova Scotia plants book available as free download
"From the weird and smelly skunk cabbage melting the snows around Yarmouth to the globally rare eastern mountain avens on Brier Island to ... «Digby Courier, Apr 15»
Report: Diversity of New England plant life is threatened
Listed as threatened by the state, the White Mountain avens, native to the Presidential Range and Franconia Notch, has been put at risk by ... «Foster's Daily Democrat, Mar 15»
Tough climb reveals beauty above tree in the White Mountains
As we continue to rock-hop and negotiate the wet, slippery rock faces we find mountain avens just opening. The only places this plant grows ... «GazetteNET, Jun 14»
Go Walk: Lough Avalla Farm Loop, Co Clare
And of course the flowers: blue gentians to gladden the heart, carpets of mountain avens, clumps of anemones. Even the farm animals are ... «Irish Times, May 14»
