The national Flower of Greenland
by Eva Lechner
Title
The national Flower of Greenland
Artist
Eva Lechner
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Chamaenerion latifolium is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the English common names dwarf fireweed and river beauty willowherb. It has a circumboreal distribution, appearing throughout the northern regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including subarctic and Arctic areas such as snowmelt-flooded gravel bars and talus, in a wide range of elevations.
This arctic plant provides valuable nutrition for the Inuit, who eat the leaves raw, boiled with fat, or steeped in water for tea, the flowers and fruits raw, and as a salad with meals of seal and walrus blubber. The leaves and shoots are edible, tasting much like spinach, and is also known in the Canadian tundra as River Beauty.[citation needed]
It is the national flower of Greenland with the Greenlandic name niviarsiaq ("young girl")
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September 23rd, 2022
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