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American Mastidon
Mammut americanum
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FACT: Despite that mastodons and mammoths look somewhat alike, they are not closely related. The mastodon lived in spruce woodlands, valleys and swamps, where it ate leaves from shrubs and trees, and conifer twigs.
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Mastodons (Greek: μαστός “breast” and ὀδούς, “tooth”) are any species of extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut (family Mammutidae), distantly related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene10,000 to 11,000 years ago.[1] Mastodons lived in herds and were predominantly forest dwelling animals that fed on a mixed diet obtained by browsing and grazing with a seasonal preference for […] read more
Purple Saxifrage
Saxifraga oppositifolia
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FACT: It is a low-growing and mat-forming perennial plant. The flowers have a purple colour and are edible.
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Saxifraga oppositifolia, the purple saxifrage or purple mountain saxifrage,[1] is a species of edible plant that is very common all over the high Arctic and also some high mountainous areas further south, including northern Britain, the Alps and the Rocky Mountains. It is even known to grow on Kaffeklubben Island in north Greenland,[2] at 83°40’N, the most northerly plant locality in the world. It grows in all kinds of cold temperate to arctic […] read more
Goldenrod
Solidago virgaurea
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FACT: This plant contains substances that makes one highly diuretic when ingested.
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Solidago virgaurea (European goldenrod or woundwort) is an herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as North Africa and northern, central, and southwestern Asia (China, Russia, India, Turkey, Kazakhstan, etc.).[2][3][4] It is grown as a garden flower with many different cultivars. It flowers profusely in late summer. Solidago virgaurea is a perennial herb up to […] read more
Norway Spruce
Picea abies 
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FACT: During the Ice Age, few Norway spruces grew in ice-free areas. After the retreat of the ice, the trees spread to the milder tundra landscape.
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Picea abies, the Norway spruce,[3] is a species of spruce native to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.[4] It has branchlets that typically hang downwards, and the largest cones of any spruce, 9–17 cm (3 1⁄2–6 3⁄4 in) long. It is very closely related to the Siberian spruce(Picea obovata), which replaces it east of the Ural Mountains, and with which it hybridises freely. The Norway spruce is widely planted for its wood, and […] read more
Hoary Rock-rose
Helianthemum oelandicum 
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FACT: A very short plant with yellow flowers.
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Helianthemum oelandicum, commonly called hoary rockrose, is a low growing plant confined to rocky dry calcareous areas especially close to the sea. The plant typically has a central stock from which numerous branches radiate horizontally or ascending. Stipules are absent and the small leaves (about 10mm long) are simple and green above but densely hairy and […] read more
Arctic Meadow-rue
Thalictrum alpinum 
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FACT: A perennial plant, growing up to 20-25 cm. The slender, elongated and leafless stalk bears yellow or purple flowers.
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Thalictrum alpinum is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family known by the common names alpine meadow-rue[1][2] and arctic meadow-rue. It is native to Arcticand alpine regions of North America and Eurasia, including Alaska, northern Canada, and Greenland, and it occurs in cold, wet, boggy habitats in high mountains farther south. Alpine meadow-rue is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing up to 5 to 25 cm (2 to 10 in) tall. The […] read more