This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays provides a little insight into what you might find beneath your feet as you explore the Icelandic highlands…
Autumn mountain vegetation, Central Highland, Iceland. (Credit: Ragnar Sigurdsson/arctic-images.com, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
You can stumble upon wild blueberries, better known to botanists as vaccinium uliginosum, in cool temperate regions of the Arctic, as well as other mountainous areas including the Pyrenees, Alps, and Rockies. They thrive in wet acidic soils – the sort you might find in heathlands, moorlands and stretches of Arctic tundra, and can carpet the ground beneath coniferous forests too!
Here’s a close-up! (Credit: Kim Hansen via Wikimedia Commons)
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