The Dryas flowers in desolate tundra environments.    From LearnThat.org. 

Experimental ecology of Dryas octopetala ecotypes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

In opposition to him rose Dryas, the bravest of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

The abrupt termination of the Younger Dryas climate event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

It will probably be on the scale of the Younger Dryas event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Today in Pessimism] Reference

This post made me think of Dryas integrifolia... amazing plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crocus] Reference

The Younger Dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

Allozyme and morphological variation in two subspecies of Dryas octopetala.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

The end of the Younger Dryas was marked by a very rapid rise in temperatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

(There's also an Older Dryas. which occurred several thousand years earlier).    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Examples for plants include the cotton-grass Eriophorum vaginatum, and Dryas species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic environments north of the treeline] Reference

Molecular phylogeography of Dryas integrifolia: glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

Polar semi-desert dominated by mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala ''), Ny Ålesund, Svalbard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term] Reference

Fungal hyphal length in litter of Dryas octopetala in a high-Arctic polar semi-desert, Svalbard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic] Reference

Allozyme and morphological variation in two subspecies of Dryas octopetala (Rosaceae) in Alaska.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference

Molecular phylogeography of '' Dryas integrifolia '': glacial refugia and postglacial recolonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

The Younger Dryas lasted about one thousand years, and represented a return to almost full glacial conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

The warming was shortly interrupted by a sudden cooling, known as the Younger-Dryas, at about 10,000 - 8500 BC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth's climatic history] Reference

Responses of '' Dryas octopetala '' to ITEX environmental manipulations: a synthesis with circumpolar comparisons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation] Reference

During the Younger Dryas event, mean annual temperatures fell substantially in some areas and reglaciation occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

That triggered changes in Atlantic Ocean currents, which ushered in a 1,300-year ice age known as the Younger Dryas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

They found that the major source of increased methane during the Younger Dryas-Preboreal transition was from wetlands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Chameides: Staring Down the Double-Barrel Climate Shotgun] Reference

For example, coming out of the Younger Dryas period at say 12,500 years ago, average temperature rose 13° C in 10 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds] Reference

For example, coming out of the Younger Dryas period at say 12,500 years ago, average temperature rose 13° C in 10 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds] Reference

Then, the Younger Dryas ended nearly as quickly as it began, and the climate bounced promptly back to nearly pre-Dryas levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

This is widely considered to be the cause of the Younger Dryas, a period of severe cooling in Europe some thousands of years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - Carbon tax works out to $43/ton.] Reference

What matters now is their ecological effects, the most important of which is that the beech, hemlock, and Dryas did not go extinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

The fate of this Centaur atoned for the death of his fallen companion, and Dryas turned to the raging mob and laid five of them low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference

He was punished with the loss of his reason, and, during one of his mad paroxysms, killed his own son Dryas, whom he mistook for a vine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference

Paeonia sp., and umbellifer Pleurospermum uralensis, Myosotis sp., whilst the tundra includes Saxifraga tenuis, Dryas sp. and Thymus sp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin Komi Forests, Russian Federation] Reference

A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels] Reference

Pirithous and Dryas shepherd of his people, or as Caeneus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad] Reference

Younger Dryas "black mats" and the Rancholabrean termination in North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Archaeology] Reference

Anthropologist Leonard Cedric commented in 1979 about the mysterious Younger Dryas extinctions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earthfiles.com Articles] Reference

The most detailed information is available for the Younger Dryas-to-Holocene stepwise change around.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference