Today’s post comes from Cara Freitag, a park naturalist at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.
One of the most interesting stories that a small, shrubby, low-growing plant can tell is that of Sleeping Giant’s arctic disjunct species.
They survived a journey of over 850 km: that’s almost infinity for small plants like the Encrusted Saxifrage.
Travelling from the geological area known today as Polar Bear Provincial Park, these plants have found microclimates they can also call home here at Sleeping Giant.