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| | Kongsvoll Alpine Garden - The Dovrefjell flora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | It just offers a foretaste of what is awaiting he or she who sets off to explore, either westwards through the more impoverished parts of the national park, along the Pilgrims' Trail, or on Knutshø, the most renowned mountain for plants in southern Norway. |
 | | The rich flora of the Dovrefjell mountains was discovered by the botanist, G.C. Oeder, who travelled in Norway in 1755-60 to gather information for a monograph, Flora Danica, which also took in Norway. |
 | | This concentration of species in the Dovrefjell area led to the theory being put forward that the plants had survived the Ice Ages in refuges, on nunataks that protruded above the ice. |
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