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.
What you feel under feet belongs to the Western Alps. But if you reach out your hand, you can make a journey to the East, in the flora of the Eastern Alps. The latitude is more or less the same, but not the lodestone. The Eastern Alps are mostly composed of calcareous rock...