Flora
Older Dryas species are usually found in sediment below the bottom layer of the bog. Indicator species are the Alpine plants:
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- Betula pubescens or Downy birch (Central Europe);
- Pinaceae or pine family (Poland);
- Dryas octopetala, or dryas;
- Salix herbacea, or dwarf willow;
- Oxyria digyna, or mountain sorrel.
Grasslands species are:
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- Artemisia, sagebrush or wormwood;
- Ephedra, or joint-fir.
- Hippophae
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