Tundra+2+Botanist

plants:  There are around 1700 species of plants that live in this zone. Low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses. 400 varieties of flowers. crustose and foliose lichen. all of the plants are adapted to sweeping winds and disturbances of the soil.plants are short and group together to resist the cold temperatures and are protected by the snow during the winter. the growing seasons are short and most plants reproduce by budding and division rather than sexually by flowering.