page_title: Flora of Svalbard
section_title: Plant species
hierarchical_section_title: Flora of Svalbard / Plant species
caption_attribution_description: English: Hawkweed-leaved Saxifrage, Saxifraga hieracifolia, Svalbard,.
context_page_description: There are 164 vascular plant species on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This figure does not include algae, mosses, and lichens, which are non-vascular plants. For an island so far north, 164 species constitutes an astonishing variety of plant life. Because of the harsh climate and the short growing season, all the plants are slow growing. They seldom grow higher than 10 cm.
  In some areas, especially in warmer valleys, the plants produce carpets of blossoms. Svalbard has been divided into four vegetation zones.
context_section_description: Arabis alpina - Alpine rock-cress
  Arenaria pseudofrigida - Fringed sandwort
  Arnica alpina - Alpine arnica
  Betula nana - Dwarf birch
  Braya purpurascens - Purplish Braya
  Campanula uniflora - Arctic harebell
  Cardamine nymanii - Polar cress
  Carex misandra - Sooty sedge
  Cassiope tetragona - Arctic bell-heather
  Cerastium arcticum - Arctic mouse-ear chickweed
  Cochlearia officinalis - Scurvy-grass
  Deschampsia alpina - Alpine hair-grass
  Draba
  D. bellii - Yellow arctic whitlow-grass
  D. lactea - Lapland whitlow-grass
  Dryas octopetala - Mountain avens
  Empetrum nigrum - Crowberry
  Erigeron humilis - Black fleabane
  Eriophorum scheuchzeri - Arctic cottongrass
  Luzula
  L. nivalis - Tundra wood-rush
  L. confusa - Arctic wood-rush
  Mertensia maritima - Oysterleaf
  Minuartia rubella - Alpine sandwort
  Oxyria digyna - Mountain sorrel
  Papaver dahlianum - Svalbard poppy
  Pedicularis
  P. dasyantha - Woolly lousewort
  P. hirsuta - Hairy lousewort
  Petasites frigidus - Lapland butterbur
  Poa alpina - Alpine meadow-grass
  Polemonium boreale - Boreal Jacobs-ladder
  Polygonum viviparum - Alpine bistort
  Potentilla
  P. chamissonis - Bluff cinquefoil
  P. hyparctica - Arctic cinquefoil
  P. pulchella - Tufted cinquefoil
  Puccinellia phryganodes - Cushioned saltmarsh grass
  Ranunculus
  R. hyperboreus - Arctic buttercup
  R. lapponicus - Lapland buttercup
  R. nivalis - Snow buttercup
  R. pedatifidus - Lobed buttercup
  R. pygmaeus - Pygmy buttercup
  R. sulphureus - Sulphur-coloured buttercup
  Rubus chamaemorus - Cloudberry
  Salix
  Salix herbacea - Snowbed willow
  Salix polaris - Polar willow
  Saxifraga
  S. aizoides - Yellow mountain saxifrage
  S. cernua - Drooping saxifrage
  S. cespitosa - Tufted saxifrage
  S. flagellaris - Whiplash saxifrage
  S. hieracifolia - Hawkweed-leaved saxifrage
  S. hirculus - Bog saxifrage
  S. nivalis - Alpine saxifrage
  S. oppositifolia - Purple saxifrage
  S. rivularis - Brook saxifrage
  Silene
  S. acaulis - Moss campion
  S. furcata - Arctic Lychnis
  S. wahlbergella - Northern catchfly
  Stellaria
  S. crassipes - Chickweed
  S. humifusa - Arctic chickweed
  Taraxacum
  T. arcticum - Arctic dandelion
  T. brachyceras - Polar dandelion
  Vaccinium uliginosum - Bog bilberry
caption: Hawkweed-leaved saxifrage
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