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n. - Any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of a particular genus

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  • Black spruce and dwarf larch Larix larieina scrub colonises exposed moraines, giving way to an ericaceous shrub formation in the more exposed and unstable areas with alpine...
  • The diapensia was already quite out of bloom, although only nine days before we had thought it hardly at its best.
  • Along this ridge I was delighted to find in blossom two beautiful Alpine plants, which I had missed in previous (July) visits, -- the diapensia
  • I enjoyed the climb, the lessening forest, the alpine plants (the diapensia was in full flower, with its upright snowy goblets, while the geum and the Greenland sandwort...
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