Dryas (Noun)
Meaning
Mountain avens.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Dryas is a low-growing shrub often found in well-drained acidic soils between and around rocks in the arctic tundra.
- Mountain aven, also known as dryas, is an early bloom in the far north with white flowers that often persist through early snows.
- Dryas grows in high-latitude alpine tundra ecosystems where permafrost reaches to just a few centimeters beneath the surface of the ground.
- As a highly cold-tolerant and arctic specialist, dryas grows at its widest distribution north of treeline of boreal woodland.
- Narrowly adapted subshrubs such as the mountain dryas inhabit stone-littered landscape of high Arctic sites where bedrock surfaces outcrop.