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Arctic Cotton, a kind of sedge that bears puffball-like white 



flower clusters, is a surprising sight on the Barren Grounds. 



The flowers, fruits, berries, and seeds of many Arctic 

 plants are often astonishingly colorful and exotic: for 

 example, this specimen of a Silene from Bylot Island. 



The fruit of the Black Crawberry, an Arctic plant of dwarf 

 stature, is eaten by animals but is highly caustic to humans. 



An exotic lichen. Such plants, forming a great part of the 

 Arctic flora, really consist of certain funguses and algae 

 growing together as one. 



