The snow cover

It may seem strange, but even snow has a positive effect on the survival of mountain plants. Most of those who produce flowers need to be exposed for four or five months: during this time, they complete their life cycle and for the rest of the time they remain covered under a blanket of snow.

But how do they survive under there? It isn’t as bad as you may think. Snow is a poor conductor of heat and this means that plants don’t undergo significant changes in temperature: when the snow cover is sufficiently thick, the temperature of the soil will never drop below 0 ° C and therefore the soil doesn’t freeze completely.