Dryas octopetala
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Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens, eightpetal mountain-avens, white dryas or white dryad, is an Arctic–alpine flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. It is a small prostrate evergreen subshrub form
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Oldest Dryas
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The Oldest Dryas is a biostratigraphic subdivision layer corresponding to a relatively abrupt climatic cooling event, or stadial, which occurred during the last glacial retreat. The time period to whi
Dryas octopetala
…localities where snow melts early, on gravel and rocky barrens, forming a distinct heath community on calcareous soils. The Younger Dryas, Older Dryas and Oldest Dryas stadials are named after Dryas octopetala, because of the great quantities of its pollen found in cores dating from those times. During these cold…
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Grassland (Inner Mongolia)
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