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only some vegatation can be found such as fungi, moss,lichens and liverwort and some types of algae. There are two native vascular species of plant, the Antarctic Hairgrass and the Antarctic pearlwort
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∙ 14y agoNo plants! It's just snow and ice in Antarctica and you need soil to grow and make plants.
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∙ 13y agoThe most common plants in Antarctica are Antarctic pearlwort Antarctic hairgrass lichen moss and algae.
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∙ 7y agoThere are no trees or shrubs, and only two species of flowering plants are found: Antarctic hair grass (Deschampsia antarctica) and Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis).
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What are some tropical plants in Antarctica?
Antarctica is polar: tropical plants grow in the tropics. There are no tropical plants in Antarctica.
How do tropical plants grow in Antarctica?
There are no tropical plants in Antarctica. Antarctica is a polar continent and essentially nothing grows there.
What continents has the fewest flowering plants?
Antarctica is the continent that has the fewest flowering plants.
Are there plants in Antarctica what kinds?
The only plants in Antarctica are a few small shrubs of grass. Research shows that Antarctica used to be warm and blooming with plants of all kinds before it drifted south.
What plants grow on antarctica?
Well, lichens, mosses, and algaes are one of them, though, not many plants grow in antarctica
What continent has the least amount of fossils?
Antarctica is the continent that has the fewest flowering plants.
How could the duckbill dinosaur tooth fossil lead scientists to believe that plants also existed in Antarctica?
Because hadrosaurs could not have survived without plants, their presence in Antarctica proves that plants existed there. Additionally, fossil plants have been found in Antarctica.
What is a pearlwort plants?
a plant in antarctica
How do plants grow in the Antarctica?
They don't
Does the Antarctica have plants in the water?
yes
How do Antarctica's plants get their waer?
from ice
What is an example of commensalism in antarctica?
Plants
