🟥 🪴 Lewesia is a compact alpine perennial that thrives where many plants fail, rooting into rocky, fast-draining soils and producing vivid star-shaped blooms in shades of pink, coral, apricot, and white. 🎞 Please visit: @Flowers0205 🔁 ❤️ Greatly Appreciated Native to western North America, it forms low rosettes of fleshy leaves adapted to conserve water and withstand temperature swings. Its flowers open wide in sunlight, revealing intricate striping and bright centers that attract pollinators in otherwise sparse environments. Beneath the surface, Lewesia relies on efficient moisture regulation and protective biochemical compounds such as flavonoids and phenolic acids, helping it tolerate stress from cold, drought, and high light exposure. This combination of structural and chemical resilience makes it a standout example of alpine plant adaptation. #AlpineBotany rhs.org.uk/plants/lewisia⁠

Read latest #AlpineBotany paper “Floral attractants in an alpine environment: linking floral volatiles, flower size and pollinators” by @YeseniaMar22018, et al. 🌸rdcu.be/dVMQ4🌸 #SNALBO #SpringerNature

Read latest #AlpineBotany paper “Floral attractants in an alpine environment: linking floral volatiles, flower size and pollinators” by @YeseniaMar22018, et al. 🌸rdcu.be/dVMQ4🌸 #SNALBO #SpringerNature

Read latest #AlpineBotany paper “Experimental grazer exclusion increases pollination reliability and influences pollinator-mediated plant-plant interactions in Tibetan alpine meadows” by @oysteinopedal @ErliangGao, et al. ✨rdcu.be/dVMMH✨ #SNALBO #SpringerNature

#NewPaper 🚨: Can alpine species take the heat? Impacts of increased temperatures on early life stages @AlexSeglias 🌡️⛰️🌱 #ClimateChange #AlpineBotany #SeedEcology (1/6) buff.ly/4efsE9I

⏳Exactly 3 years ago, my master thesis on #Carex humilis'🌿 upward #migration in response to #climatechange was accepted by #AlpineBotany, highlighting a rapid 51 meters per decade elevational shift in the #LTER area Matsch/Matsch 🏔️ since 1976. link.springer.com/article/10…

SPI funded the SUMITER expedition (SUrveying and MonItoring mounTain vEgetation in the aRctic) to resurvey vegetation plots of the northernmost peaks of the GLORIA network in #Zackenberg, #Greenland. #AlpineEcology #AlpineBotany #FloreAlpe @unil @ZERO74N gloria.ac.at/home

Actually, I think that E-Mountainbikes are a bloody pest! However, when the cable car is not yet running and a #FieldTrip needs to be prepared… ;) #EMTB #AlpineBotany

My PhD work on the survival of the cold-adapted species Veronica aragonensis in Iberian mountain refugia is now published in @AlpineBotany rdcu.be/cl7Hv Big thanks to coauthors NMachon, MMartínez-Ortega and JG.Segarra-Moragues, and all friends helping in the field💚

Our new paper explains that "Phenology determines leaf functional traits across Rhododendron species in the Sikkim Himalaya" @atree_org link.springer.com/article/10… #Alpinebotany #Himalaya #Phenology #leaftraits #Rhododendron #Sikkim