Avens

White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Polar semi-desert dominated by mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala ''), Ny Ålesund, Svalbard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the Arctic, extremely steep environmental gradients are frequent on a microtopographical scale and ecotypic differentiation has been demonstrated over such short distances for alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum [16]), Carex aquatilis [17], mountain avens [18], and purple saxifrage [19], all widely distributed plant species in the Arctic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Today, introduced annual grasses, including various species of avens, brome, fescue, and barley, occupy most of the remaining grassland areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such an effect was demonstrated for mountain avens ( '' Dryas octopetala '') on Svalbard during a warm period in early winter [78] (see previous subsection on projected temperature responses). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alpine vegetation is also characterized by heather (Ericaceae) with sedges (Carex spp.) and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana) on warmer sites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the colder alpine regions, mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana), dwarf shrubs, forbs, grasses, and lichens constitute the main vegetative cover. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is characterized by diminutive hardy vegetation such as low-growing willow Salix arctica and dwarf birch Betula glandulosa, heath Cassiope tetragona, mountain avens Dryas integrifolia, D. hookeriania, sedge Carex nigricans, Kobresia bellardii, Phyllodoce glandulifolia and Antennaria lanata. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The alpine vegetation is typically tundra, and includes discontinuous patches of low-growing heather (Ericaceae), sedge (Carex spp.), and mountain avens (Dryas hookeriana). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Surface material deposits from glaciers and icefields form moraines which are colonized by lichens and mosses, horsetail Equisetum sp., willows Salix spp., fire weed Epilobium sp., and mountain avens Dryas drummondii. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But then, about 11,000 years ago, temperatures suddenly dropped, glaciers began to reform, and the woodland frontier moved southward, allowing the tundra—which was largely identified from macrofossils of the cold-adapted mountain avens, Dryas octopetala—to reestablish itself. ❋ MICHAEL BALTER (2005)

I flicked them off with a few stern swipes of my apron, and made a mental note to see about finding some avens root for repellant. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

Beside them, mountain avens clung to the rocky outcrops and hills of this rugged lower land, just as it did on mountainsides, its low evergreen branches of tiny leaves and solitary yellow flowers spreading out, over many years, into dense mats. ❋ Auel, Jean M. (1990)

And did not both men pluck him handfuls of cowslips, of tawny-pink avens, and of mottled, snake-headed fritillaries, and stow them away in the fishing-baskets above the load of silver-and-red spotted trout? ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

In 1894, M. M.rtel and three friends, taking with them Armand, the trusty help in descending _avens_, pot-holes, and exploring the course of subterranean rivers, resolved on an attempt at the exploration of this mysterious cavern. ❋ Unknown (1879)

In some places the chasms of rock have widened, the intermediate projections given way, and huge cavities of rightful depth -- avens or tindouls, as they are locally called -- are formed in the limestone. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)

But in herb-bennet and avens each nut has a single long awn, crooked near the middle with a very peculiar S-shaped joint, which effectually catches on to the wool or hair, but drops at the elbow after a short period of withering. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

The brambles are the bowers of the birds; in these still leafy bowers they do the courting of the spring, and under the brambles the earliest arum, and cleaver, or avens, push up. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

There were buttercups, avens, and white nettles in flower on December 31st. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)