SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2019

Rare Plants Inhabit Adirondack Ice Meadows

by Paul Hetzler
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Now that the weather has finally warmed up, we can appreciate ice a little more. Among other things, ice greatly improves summertime drinks, and an icy watermelon is hands-down better than a warm one. And in this part of the world, ice also provides us with unique wildflower meadows.

Along stretches of riverbank in the Southern Adirondacks, rare Arctic-type flowers are blooming now in the fragile slices of native grasslands that are meticulously groomed each year by the scouring action of ice and melt-water.

Read More: https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2019/06/rare-plants-inhabit-adirondack-ice-meadows.html