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Lambertia formosa, commonly known as mountain devil, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae, endemic to New South Wales, Australia. First described in 1798 by English botanist James Edward Smith , it is the type species of the small genus Lambertia .
Krigia montana, known as mountain dwarfdandelion, is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Great Smoky Mountains and other nearby peaks in the southern Appalachians of Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Georgia. It is found on cliffs and outcrops at high elevations. [4] [5]
Angophora hispida grows as a mallee, or as a tree to about 7 m (25 ft) in height. [2] A. hispida's small size, especially when compared to its Angophora and Eucalyptus relatives, leads to it being known by the common name dwarf apple. [1]
Erigeron compositus has been found in the Russian Far East (Wrangel Island and Chukotka), Alaska, Greenland, much of Canada (all three Arctic territories plus British Columbia, all three Prairie Provinces, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia), and the Western United States (from the Pacific Coast as far east as the Dakotas, Colorado, and New Mexico).
Betula nana, the dwarf birch, [2] is a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, found mainly in the tundra of the Arctic region. Specimen at 1000m Description
Dryas integrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names arctic avens, [2] entireleaf mountain-avens, white mountain-avens, northern white mountain avens, [3] and mountain avens. [4] It is native to northern parts of North America, where it occurs from Alaska across Canada to Greenland.
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Asimina pygmaea, the dwarf pawpaw or gopher berry, is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Florida and Georgia in the United States . [ 2 ] William Bartram , the American naturalist who first formally described the species using the basionym Annona pygmaea , named it after its dwarfed ( pygmaeus in Latin) stature.