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Vegetation
Flora and Fauna:
Plants: Douglas Fir, Forage Grass, White Spruce, Lodgepole Pine, Ponderosa Pine, and Bunchgrass/sedges
Lichen and shrubs are found in the alpine regions. Alpine Fir and Englemann Spruce are found in the subalpine regions. Between elevations of 1 200 and 2 300 metres the Englemann Spruce-Subalpine Fir belt is found. The drier regions are mainly dominated by Lodgepole Pine. Whitebark Pine and Alpine Larch are also common.
Wildfires are common and help to keep these forests from spreading too far.
Flowers:
- Paintbrush
- Fireweed
- lupine glacier lily
- Mimulus

Lupine Glacier Lily

Montane Cordillera Forest

Forage Grass

Mimulus flower

Fireweed

Lodepole Spruce

Engelmann Spruce

paintbrush flower

Cornus nuttallii
Fun Fact! The national flower of British Columbia is the Cornus Nuttallii!
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