Krummholz
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Krummholz — also called knieholz — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in the subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds. Un
Krummholz Pinus albicaulis in Wenatchee National Forest in north-central Washington, United States
Wind-sculpted krummholz trees, Ona Beach, Oregon, United States
Picea engelmannii flag tree in Colorado, at the tree line
Banner tree, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
Taiga
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Taiga or tayga, also known as boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches.
Krummholz
…limber pine, bristlecone pine, and lodgepole pine. Instances of the krummholz form of black spruce, Picea mariana, are found in the northern Canadian boreal forests. Krummholz-form black spruce and balsam fir are abundant in the alpine transition zone of the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire and of the…
Jack London Lake in Kolyma, Russia
The Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York form the southernmost part of the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion, constituting part of the world's taiga biome.
White spruce taiga in the Alaska Range, Alaska, United States
Siberian taiga