These plants grow low to the ground, safe from the wind. Many of them are very flexible and don1t break when blown. Alpine plants, or plants that grow above the timberline, die during the cold season and grow back when warmer weather comes. Here is the weather graph for the Tundra Biome. Shallow-rooted and low growing, tundra plants often form lumpy mats.
Most plants are renennials, with underground roots that survive year after year.
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