What is the most northerly flower?

Question

North of Greenland

Answer 1

Kaffeklubben Island or (Coffee Club Island) is a small island lying off the north eastern tip of Greenland, and is considered to be the most northerly point of land on earth (and part of Greenland proper).

Discovered by Robert Peary in 1900, the island is around 1 km in length, and found at 83°40′N 29°50′W, 37 km east of Cape Morris Jesup, Greenland. First visited by the Danish explorer Lauge Koch in 1921, he named it after the coffee club in Copenhagen's museum of mineralogy, and in 1969 a Canadian team calculated that its northernmost tip lies 750 m further north than Cape Morris Jesup, thus claiming its record as the most northerly point on land.

The purple saxifrage IS the most northerly plant life on earth, with the Arctic Willow also in the same approximate area.

Answer 2

Purple Saxifrage
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iPurple Saxifrage


Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order: Saxifragales

Family: Saxifragaceae

Genus: Saxifraga


Binomial name
Saxifraga oppositifolia
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The Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) is a species of plant that is very common all over the high arctic and also some high mountainous areas further south, including northern Britain, the Alps and the Rocky Mountains. It is even known to grow in north Greenland, at 83°15'N, the most northerly plant locality in the world.

It is a low-growing, densely or loosely matted plant growing to 3–5 cm high, with somewhat woody branches of creeping or trailing habit close to the surface. The leaves are small, rounded, scale-like, opposite in 4 rows, with ciliated margins. The flowers are solitary on short stalks, petals purple or lilac, much longer than the calyx lobes. It is one of the very first spring flowers, continuing to flower during the whole summer in localities where the snow melts later.

It grows in all kinds of cold temperate to arctic habitats, from sea level up to 1000 m, in many places colouring the landscape. It is a popular plant in alpine gardens, though difficult to grow in warm climates.

Answer 3

The most northerly country is Iceland

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Answer 4

don´t know