#2 tasiilaq plants

#2 Tasiilaq | PLANT STUDY Urban Design - Arctic Cities: New spaces in Tasiilaq, East Greenland

BOWEN CUI Autumn 2014, Tromsø Academy of Landscape and territorial studies

1. Oxyria digyna Mountain Sorrel ĺąąč“ź Western China Altitude 3100-4900m

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Plant ecology description Common in moist, gravelly, rocky sites, screes, herbs slopes, snow patches.

Plant Society Grow together with moss and Saxifraga nathorstii underneath. Dominant.

2. Saxifraga nathorstii ?? 虎耳草属

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Plant ecology description Common in moist, gravelly, rocky sites.

Plant Society Grow together with moss.

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3. Agrostis mertensii Northern Bentgrass 剪股颖属

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Plant ecology description Alpine or subalpine zones, cliffs, balds, or ledges, mountain summits and plateaus, ridges or ledges.

Plant Society Grow together with moss and Saxifraga underneath.

Dominant.

4. Cerastium nigresces Arctic Mouse-ear 卷耳属

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Plant ecology description Snow-bed sites on fells, melt-water meadows, precipices, sandbanks.

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5. Eriophorum Triste（Th.Fries） Bleak Cottongrass 羊胡子草属

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Plant ecology description Common in fens, long lake margins and in moist heaths.

Often on limestone.

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