Boreal kingdom
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The Boreal kingdom or Holarctic kingdom is a floristic kingdom identified by botanist Ronald Good, which includes the temperate to Arctic portions of North America, Eurasia and North Africa. Its flora
Juniperus communis on Lüneburg Heath in Germany
Rhododendron tomentosum
Circumboreal Region
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The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtaj
Boreal kingdom
…Eurasia and North Africa. Its flora is inherited from the ancient supercontinent of Laurasia. However, parts of the floristic kingdom (and most of its Circumboreal Region) were glaciated during the Pleistocene and as a consequence have a very young flora. Cenozoic relicts found refuge in the southern and mountainous parts…
Epilobium angustifolium
Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Betula nana in Greenland
Alnus viridis