Alpine Region
The Alps are eponymous of the Alpine climate typical of the Alps between the tree line up to the permanent snow line, roughly between 1800 m and 2500 m. This alpine region contains the full beauty and variety of characteristic vegetation of the Alps.
The region contains many shrubs:
- Three species of rhododendron have masses of red or pink flowers;
- The common junipers grow at elevations above the rhododendrons.
- Three species of bilberry are associated with the junipers.
- Several dwarf willows grow near the snow line.
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Famous quotes containing the words alpine and/or region:
“Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“It was a favor for which to be forever silent to be shown this vision. The earth beneath had become such a flitting thing of lights and shadows as the clouds had been before. It was not merely veiled to me, but it had passed away like the phantom of a shadow, skias onar, and this new platform was gained. As I had climbed above storm and cloud, so by successive days’ journeys I might reach the region of eternal day, beyond the tapering shadow of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)