Rhodiola integrifolia
King's crown is an alpine succulent of western North America and the Russian Far East. Stout stems of blue-green leaves rise from a thick rootstock each summer and carry dense heads of dark red flowers. It grows on tundra, scree and moist rocky ledges, and it needs a long frozen winter and cool summers.
Where it grows wild
Grows in alpine and subalpine tundra, on rock ledges, scree and moist meadows, often where snowmelt keeps the soil damp early in the season.
Recorded from sea level in Alaska to about 4,030 m, median 3,190 m; in the southern Rockies and Sierra Nevada it stays above treeline.
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