Photo taken by Rebecca Deatsman, 2012 "the Alpine Tundra".
The Arctic tundra is a bleak and frozen wasteland for most of the year, while its sister biome, the alpine tundra, offers much of the same hospitality. The summers are short and wildly abundant, but here only the strong, the stubborn, or the clever survive and thrive.
tun-dra
: a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs; also: a similar region confined to mountainous areas above timberline (mirriam-Webster).
Chelsey Mills 2013 Keystone High School Biology