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Photos Wind rustles cotton grass in the Stampede area near Healy on Friday, July 7, 2023.
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Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
Today, Ellesmere, which lies next to Greenland on the eastern edge of Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, supports only ankle-high tufts of cotton grass and mossy ground cover; the nearest tree is almost 1,200 miles south.
—Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
Southwards, the coast yields to low stands of dwarf birch and willow, sphagnum bogs of arctic cotton grass, pitcher plants, blueberries, lingonberries, and cloudberries.
—Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
On Huvudskär, one of the archipelago’s final outposts, heather, cotton grass, and crowberry grow in rock crevices.
—National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2019
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Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
Today, Ellesmere, which lies next to Greenland on the eastern edge of Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, supports only ankle-high tufts of cotton grass and mossy ground cover; the nearest tree is almost 1,200 miles south.
—Kendall Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
Southwards, the coast yields to low stands of dwarf birch and willow, sphagnum bogs of arctic cotton grass, pitcher plants, blueberries, lingonberries, and cloudberries.
—Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
On Huvudskär, one of the archipelago’s final outposts, heather, cotton grass, and crowberry grow in rock crevices.
—National Geographic, 14 Nov. 2019
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“Cotton grass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cotton%20grass. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
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