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Yellow Mountain Avens, a Habitat Photo. While on a road trip on the Alaska Highway is was impossible not to notice all the feathery seed plumes. They looked like snow on the side of the road. The plant obviously likes gravel because everywhere the side of the road was gravelly these plant were there. Besides gravel the plant needs a good covering of winter snow. Canada,Dryas drummondii,Dryas Drummondii,Geotagged,Summer Click/tap to enlarge PromotedSpecies introCountry intro

Yellow Mountain Avens, a Habitat Photo.

While on a road trip on the Alaska Highway is was impossible not to notice all the feathery seed plumes. They looked like snow on the side of the road. The plant obviously likes gravel because everywhere the side of the road was gravelly these plant were there. Besides gravel the plant needs a good covering of winter snow.

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    Whoa, that's gorgeous! Posted 2 years ago
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      Truly amazing! Thanks, I can just imagine what a show they would put on in the spring time. Don’t think I’ll be there for that. Can’t imagine that road at breakup. Posted 2 years ago
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        Yes! It must be amazing assuming the road is even passable. I imagine the mosquitoes would be horrifying though, from what I hear of Yukon skeeters. Posted 2 years ago
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          Interesting, after hearing reports of mosquitoes and black flies we took repellant along but we’re not bothered all that much. As for the road conditions, not a road I would want to travel on a regular basis! Posted 2 years ago
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            Oh, really! Maybe they are worse in spring after the snow melts. Or, maybe it has been dry there? We had hardly any biting flies this summer thanks to the drought. My college professor once told me that muskox will run off cliffs to escape the Yukon mosquitoes...although, I have no idea if he was being literal or not. ;P Posted 2 years ago
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              Have to say we were not disappointed in their absence! We did see lots of wildlife beside the road. Now I have to pinpoint where the photos were taken. Posted 2 years ago
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                I wouldn't be torn up about it either! Sounds like a great trip! Posted 2 years ago

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The Yellow mountain-avens

''Dryas drummondii'' is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names yellow mountain-avens, yellow dryas, or yellow dryad. It is native to Alaska, Canada, and northern states in the contiguous United States. This species is actinorhizal, able to live in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

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Uploaded Sep 14, 2022. Captured Sep 8, 2022 07:30 in Alaska Hwy, Yukon Y0A 1B0, Canada.
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  • E-M5MarkIII
  • f/14.0
  • 1/60s
  • ISO2000
  • 16mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.