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Eritrichium nanum
Also called King Of The Alps
Eritrichium nanum, the arctic alpine forget-me-not or king-of-the-Alps, is a circumpolar alpine cushion plant which occurs in the European Alps and the North American Rocky Mountains.
The plant occurs in the European Alps and western North America from Alaska and along the Rocky Mountains to Oregon, Montana and New Mexico. It grows at elevations of 10,000 feet in an environment of acid rocks, snow gullies and receding glaciers.
Howard's alpine forget-me-not · Alpine forget-me-not · Sauria akkolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eritrichium nanum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
