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Mountain flowers Saxifrages can

grow where it is so
rocky that there
Imagine you are on a windswept mountainside, with is almost no soil.

no shelter. You may have to crouch down to keep
warm and stay out of the wind. This is just what many Food for the bees
mountain plants do. Instead of growing tall, they are
Bell heather flowers late in the
often shaped like pillows or mats, with short stems summer, providing food for hungry Mountain phloxes grow
that are tightly tucked together. This protects them bees. Heather’s tiny leaves can in low mounds. Phloxes

from the wind and helps them to keep warm in the stand up to very strong winds. that live on low ground
are taller than those
cold mountain air. that live up high.

Rhododendrons The edelweiss has
Rhododendron (ro-do-den-dron) a woolly flower. The
is a long name that means “red tree.” “wool” helps protect
You’ll find rhododendron bushes the flower from the
growing in mountain valleys. sun and the wind.

Rhododendrons
have spectacular,
trumpet-shaped Rock-rose
flowers that bloom Some rock-roses grow on rocky
in late spring. hillsides, while others live in meadows.
All of them have thin, papery petals.

Thick, shiny You’ll find gentians high
leaves up in the European
Alps, even where there
is snow all year round.

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