plants and soils
The Southern Arctic is a place of very little bare soil. This is the result of the land being mostly bare rock or frozen into perma-frost. Plants which grow in this ecozone are low to the ground. This protects them from the harsh winds of the Arctic. The poor soil conditions cannot support full size trees as it is way to dry in this area. In fact, the tree line represents the southern parts of the Southern Arctic. The Southern Arctic also undergoes extremely low temps and low precipitation
Plants of the southern arctic
- Black Spruce (stunted krummholz in background)
- Fragrant Shield Fern
- Shrub Birch
- Crowberry
- Bearberry
- Moss Campion
- Lichens
- Labrador Tea
- Blueberry
- Mountain Cranberry
- Cloudberry
- Alpine Club Moss
- Least Willow
- Net-veined Willow
- Blue-green Willow
- Cotton grass
- Sedges