Taiga Mountains  

 
 
Featured Plant: Cypripedium species The Taiga Ranges form the eastern part of the North Ogilvie Mountains and are formed mostly of limestone. This region has largely remained unglaciated but has been subjected to eons of weathering. The area exhibits the patterns of a frost-weathered landscape with accumulations of talus beneath the mountain slopes. These mountains are less rugged and lower in elevation than those of the Southern Ogilvies. Often when perusing fragmented rock, it is not unusual to find pieces where softer stone has weathered away to reveal the original structure of coral branches from an ancient coral reef. Because of the calcareous sedimentary bedrock and limestone-derived soils, the vegetation of the Taiga Mountains consists of numerous calcium-loving plants, many of which are considered rare glacial relicts. Somewhat surprisingly, Pinquicula vulgaris is a common plant of these limestone hills. Back to Mountains of Northern Yukon  Partial plant list: Arnica angustifolia Campanula uniflora Chrysanthemum integrifolium Crepis nana Crepis elegans Cypripedium guttatum Cypripedium passerinum Delphinium glaucum Eritrichium aretioides Eritrichium splendens Gentiana prostata Lesquerella arctica Minuarta elegans Papaver walpolei Pedicularis capitata Pedicularis sudetica Pinguicula vulgaris Primula mistassinica Pyrola grandiflora Rhododendron lapponicum Sausurea angustifolia Saxifraga oppositifolia Smelowskia borealis Cypripedium_species.htmlMountains_of_Northern_Yukon.htmlTaiga_Mountains_photos.htmlshapeimage_4_link_0shapeimage_4_link_1