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	Mountain Avens - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mountain Avens or White Dryas (Dryas octopetala) is a alpine and arctic flowering plant in the Rosaceae.
		It has a widespread occurrence throughout mountainous areas where it is generally restricted to limestone outcrops.
		It is widespread in Scandinavia, across northern Russia, and in North America from Alaska south to Colorado in the Rocky Mountains.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mountain_Avens (321 words)

	Mountain Avens
		Mountain avens is the common name for dwarf, trailing or mat-forming shrubs in genus Dryas of the rose family (Rosaceae).
		Furry, evergreen leaves, a single decorative flower and a mat-forming ability make mountain avens popular for rock gardens.
		It grows on rocky, barren slopes in the mountains of BC and Alberta, and throughout the territories and the arctic archipelago.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005492 (131 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mountain avens
		The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault.
		---Description--- The Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala, Linn.) is a small plant, 2 to 3 inches high, distinguished from all other plants of the order Rosaceae by its oblong deeply-cut leaves, which are white with a woolly down beneath, and by its large, handsome, anemone-like, white flowers, which have eight petals.
		Mountain avens is a small shrub, common in arctic and alpine regions.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mountain-avens (1334 words)

	Zen's WNC Nature Notebook - Plant Index of Endangered and Threatened Species
		Spreading avens is a perennial herb that flowers from June to December and are making their stands on the mountaintops of Western NC and Eastern TN.
		Roan Mountain bluets is also a perennial herb, like the Spreading avens, inhabit high elevation cliffs, outcrops, and steep slopes which are exposed to full sun, and it suffers from the same compaction of soil by hikers and recreational facilities.
		Mountain golden heather looks somewhere between a moss and a low-lying juniper, sort of greenish yellow with its quarter-inch leaves hanging on from the previous year.
	www.main.nc.us /naturenotebook/plantendangeredindex.html (1665 words)

	Avens (Mountain)
		---Description---The Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala, Linn.) is a small plant, 2 to 3 inches high, distinguished from all other plants of the order Rosaceae by its oblong deeply-cut leaves, which are white with a woolly down beneath, and by its large, handsome, anemone-like, white flowers, which have eight petals.
		It is not uncommon in the mountainous parts of the British Isles, especially on limestone.
		The favourite varieties are the Scarlet Avens of Chile, Geum coccineum, the red G.
	www.nisbett.com /herbs/a/avens084.html (178 words)

	Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens
		Mountain avens blooming in the Bog habitat at the Gardens
		Eastern Mountain Avens (Geum peckii) is listed as endangered both provincially in Nova Scotia and federally across Canada.
		The White Mountains in New Hampshire and Briar Island in Nova Scotia are the only known locations in the world.
	botanicalgardens.acadiau.ca /geum.html (110 words)

	The New Brunswick Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		White Mountain Avens and Myrtle-leaved Willow are unknown elsewhere in the Maritime Provinces.
		White Mountain Avens is a common pioneer species on rocky, frost-heaved, treeless tundra throughout the Canadian arctic, extending to northernmost Ellesmere Island at 83sn.
		Shepherdia and Mountain Avens were the first of the gypsum outcrop plants to be discovered near Albert Mines, where they were found in 1942 by Raymond P. Gorham, a New Brunswick entomologist.
	www.gnb.ca /0130/english/stories16.html (1721 words)

	Mountain Avens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/arctic_wildlife/116313 (474 words)

	PlantWatch
		Arctic mountain avens (Dryas integrifolia) leaves are 1-2 cm long, narrow with smooth edges and a somewhat shiny upper surface.
		Alpine mountain avens (Dryas octopetala) leaves are longer (up to 3.5 cm) and wider, with scalloped or wavy edges.
		This floral emblem for the Northwest Territories was important for the Inuit — the twisting of the mountain avens seed head marked the best time to move inland to hunt caribou.
	www.naturewatch.ca /english/plantwatch/species_details.asp?species=20 (194 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Central British Columbia Mountain forests (NA0509) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Central British Columbia Mountain Forests ecoregion encompasses a variety of habitats, from wetlands to rugged mountain peaks.
		While the valleys typically have warm, dry summers and mild, snowy winters, the mountains are characterized by cold, snowy winters and cool, wet summers that are prone to early frosts.
		High in the mountains, beautiful alpine tundra communities of heather, heath sedge, and mountain avens color the landscape.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0509.html (453 words)

	Alpine Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mountain avens, grouseberry snow willow, mountain heaths, graminoids (grasses), kobresia and wild rye are present.
		If there is a high-wind chill factor, three types of plant adaptions can occur: the cushion plant (includes moss campion and cutleaved fleabane), rosette plants (includes dandelions, dwarf saw-wort, sweet flowered androsace, and golden fleabane) and mat plants (white moutain avens, net-veined dwarf willow, common selaginella and prickly saxifrage).
		Alpine vegetation is localized because of the climate and topographic constraints at the higher elevations.
	www.ucalgary.ca /geog/Virtual/Vegetation/alpine.html (214 words)

	Plant Watch Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Arctic mountain avens (Dryas integrifolia) leaves are 1–2 cm long, narrow with smooth edges and a somewhat shiny upper surface.
		Arctic mountain avens can also tolerate moist conditions, where it takes on a creeping form.
		This floral emblem for the Northwest Territories was important for the Inuit — the twisting of the mountain avens seed head marked the best time to move inland
	www.cnf.ca /naturewatch/plantwatch/avens.html (187 words)

	mountain avens - Geum peckii Pursh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Geum peckii Pursh more commonly known as mountain avens can be referenced under the symbol GEPE.The botany heiarchy of the mountain avens is classified within group Dicot of the Rosaceae family.
		The growth habit of the mountain avens is found growing as a Forb/herb.
		The mountain avens is a Perennial plant which means it lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.
	database.dotflowers.com /item-mountain-avens.html (259 words)

	Mountain Avens
		Dryas octopetala L. The Mountain Avens or White Dryas (Dryas octopetala) is a alpine and arctic flower of Eurasia.
		English words defined with "mountain avens": Dryas &diams; genus Dryas.
		Translations for "mountain avens"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/Mountain+Avens (278 words)

	Natural History Research Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The beauty of natural vegetation and wildflowers in mountains and rocky places has long bewitched people.
		Many a gardener has re-created some of that beauty by constructing a rock garden at home, or planting natural rockeries with species from distant mountain ranges.
		Buy avens already growing in a pot and set it into the garden in late winter to early spring.
	www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca /nh_papers/nativeplants/dryasoct.html (642 words)

	The Wild and Wonderful Burren - Irish Culture
		A deeper look, though, shows the unbelievable diversity of species that thrive in the thin soil and from crevices in the stone where one can find an abundance plants which are usually considered rare.
		The creamy petals of Mountain Avens is just one of many different varieties of unusual plants which thrive in the Burren.
		The Mountain Avens is most definitely an Alpine species yet here it can be found growing beside the Dense Flowered Orchid, which is generally found in the Mediterranean.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art31432.asp (509 words)

	Emblems of the NORTHWEST TERRITORIES , Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The gold bars are for the many minerals that are found there and the white fox represents the fur-bearing animals.
		The Mountain Avens grows everywhere in the eastern and central Arctic.
		The Mountain Avens blooms in June and July.
	www.saskschools.ca /~gregory/canada/emblems/nwt.html (203 words)

	Plants of Iceland: Dryas octopetala, Mountain Avens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		FLORA OF ICELAND elements: Dryas octopetala, mountain avens
		Presently the species occurs in the subarctic regions and on the high mountains of central Europe and the Scottish/Welsh mountains etc..
		From pollen research it is known to have been widespread through the lowlands of Europe during the glacial periods.
	www.iceland-nh.net /plants/data/Dryas-octopetala/dryas_octopetala.html (118 words)

	Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Rosaceae - Mountain Avens (Geum peckii)
		Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Rosaceae - Mountain Avens (Geum peckii)
		Habitat: Mountain Avens is an alpine species found on the high slopes of the White Mountains.
		Similar Species: The alpine habitat and the unique leaf shape are highly distinctive features of this rare, alpine species.
	www.nearctica.com /flowers/rosa/geum/Gpeckii.htm (104 words)

	CPC Plant Profile - National Collection of Endangered Plants
		Geum peckii occupies two types of habitat: mountainous wet meadows and stream-sides in the high mountains of New Hampshire, and bogs and wet depressions at sea level along the coast of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.
		In the mountains, snow and ice persist well into the growing season and high winds inhibit the growth of other vegetation (Harshberger 1929, Brackley-Tolman 2001).
		Although Gleason and Cronquist (1991: 248) state that G. peckii extends to the "higher mountains of Maine," this is unsubstantiated.
	www.centerforplantconservation.org /ASP/CPC_ViewProfile.asp?CPCNum=2022 (1508 words)

	JMT: Mountain avens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In late May 2001, as we climbed out of an alpine valley filled with the dirt-laden snow of Spring avalanches, small oak-shaped leaves lay on the snow.
		At 2200 m we found their source - a snowfree patch filled by a mat of Mountain Avens, dryas octopetala.
		A month later I found the same plant close to sea level in thin birch scrub at the head of a fjord, Nordlenangsbotn, in the Lyngen peninsula in arctic Norway.
	www.jmt.org /news/2003/34/34_dryas.html (998 words)

	National Phenological Network - Dryas integrifolia/octopetala Observations
		Mountain avens (also known as arctic dryad, alpine dryad, and white mountain avens) are ground-hugging, sun-loving, semi-shrubs.
		Seed plumes are twisted in tight red/gold bundles that open into fluffy round seed heads as they mature.
		First bloom (FB) First select an approximately 1 by 1 meter plot for observation, and then record the date when first flowers are open in at least three places on the observed plants.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/Geography/npn/dryas (229 words)

	Information about U.S. First Day of Issue Maximum Card: 29¢ White Mountain Avens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Able to survive the severe conditions of alpine areas, white mountain avens have several protective adaptations.
		A small, prostrate growth form reduces the impact of cold dry winds, while the tough roots penetrate deeply into cliffisides to anchor the plant.
		Like legumes, the roots of Dryas species develop nodules for bacteria that change atmospheric nitrogen into a usable form for the plant, so it does not have to rely on nitrogen sources in the soil.
	www.unicover.com /EA4OAP6J.htm (379 words)

	avens
		Any of several low-growing plants found throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
		Mountain avens (Dryas octopetala) belongs to a different genus and grows in mountain and arctic areas of Europe, Asia, and North America.
		A creeping perennial, it has white flowers with yellow stamens.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007700.html (111 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - mountain avens definition
		MSN Encarta - Dictionary - mountain avens definition
		Search for "mountain avens" in all of MSN Encarta
		white-flowering mountain plant: a small trailing plant of the rose family.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861693867_1861693864/prevpage.html (66 words)

	Montana Wildflowers, White Mountain Avens, Official Montana Flower and Bird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Montana Wildflowers, White Mountain Avens, Official Montana Flower and Bird
		It has lent its common name to a mountain range, a valley, and a river.
		It has taken its scientific name, lewisia, from the famous explorer, Captain Meriwether Lewis, who was the first man to collect information about this exquisite plant.
	www.americanmeadows.com /state-flower/montana-wildflowers.cfm (234 words)

	Northwest Territories - mountain avens 1
		Northwest Territories - stained glass Mountain Avens 1 Suncatcher 1
		This lovely suncatcher is made with lavender opal mix on clear-white baroque (Spectrum) glass.
		Northwest Territories - stained glass Mountain Avens 2 Suncatcher 1
	www.stainedglass.on.ca /pages/Northwest%20Territories-mountain%20avens-suncatcher.htm (249 words)

	Images Nova Scotia: Geum peckii, Eastern Mountain Avens, close-up of flowers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Images Nova Scotia: Geum peckii, Eastern Mountain Avens, close-up of flowers
		Geum peckii, Eastern Mountain Avens, close-up of flowers
		Geum peckii, Eastern Mountain Avens, close-up of flowers; Big Pond Cove, Brier Island
	museum.gov.ns.ca /imagesns/html/30503.html (49 words)

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