(Image: Gunn Sissel Jaklin / Norwegian Polar Institute) Sulphur butter-cup, a colourful plant. Cassiope tetragona (common names include Arctic bell-heather, white Arctic mountain heather and Arctic white heather) is a plant native to the high Arctic and northern Norway, where it is found widely..

Barren landscape at the northern side of Palanderbukta.

Alaskan Wildflowers grouped by color for easy identification x: Photographs by Mary Hopson (Caveat: I am not a botanist, and do not guarantee these identifications.I'm just someone who enjoys hiking and taking pictures of the flowers.)

This environment provides few places to hide. Adaptation is the key to survival, and adaptations of the polar bear, which help it survive the harsh environment of Arctic tundra, are undoubtedly … Therefore, some groups of zooplankton, such as the copepods, have developed specialized adaptations to survive the winter when food is scarce. One of these adaptations …

(Image: Kit Kovacs & Christian Lydersen / Norwegian Polar Institute) White Arctic bell-heather, a character species of the mid-Arctic tundra zone.

Creeping azalea remains on the fell out of reach of the Arctic winds and inside its cushion the temperature can be up to 10 degrees warmer than outside. Polar Bear Adaptations.

Arctic plants come in a surprisingly wide variety of shapes and sizes.

ADAPTATIONS The Arctic fox is well adapted to live in the cold Arctic. Their striking white fur allows them to blend in with their surroundings and not be seen by their predators, such as polar bears and orcas. In winter its thick, bushy coat turns white. The poison produced by cotton grass protects them from lemmings (cotton grass is the lemmings number 1 source of food) by neutralizing digestive juices, leading to the lemming starvation.

The first adaptation to survive the winter is the ability to store energy in the form of lipids, or fats. Heather, (Calluna vulgaris), also called Scotch heather or ling, low evergreen shrub of the heath family , widespread in western Europe and Asia, North America, and Greenland.

Pedicels are long and arched.

We are currently experiencing 24 hours of daylight in the Arctic, a time known as the Midnight Sun.

Another amazing adaptation they have is that they use the fibers from the top white fluffy leaf to trap solar heat to keep them warm when it is cold. These hares do not hibernate, but survive the dangerous cold with a number of behavioral and physiological adaptations. (Picture: Sandra Angers-Blondin) Cottongrass is benefiting from the warming Arctic climate. The Arctic tundra is a biome representing the northernmost limit of plant growth on earth. This makes it very hard to see the fox. Snow geese fly north to the Arctic in the spring and form breeding colonies. The prey is not able to spot the Arctic fox until it is too late.