The most common food is the buds and leaf tips of cushion plants.

The cushion plant form is not endemic to any single area or plant family.

The plants are mainly miniature cushion plants from all over the world.

The cushion plant may have flowers that are large and showy for such a small perennial.

Cushion plant and bolster moor species are active in the early phases of succession.

Other plants in the habitat include similar cushion plants.

Species richness is therefore demonstrably increased where cushion plants have colonized.

Cushion plants are well-adapted to the dryness and short growing season of a fellfield.

Phyllachne is a genus of four cushion plant species in the family Stylidiaceae.

Fellfields are typically populated by cushion plants: perennials that grow close to the ground.

Examples of cushion plants include the lupines and buckwheats.

Very few plants grow near the summit: one example is the Sky Pilot, a cushion plant that grows low to the ground.

Abrotanella rostrata is a species of cushion plant belonging to the family Asteraceae.

Cushion plants lining river banks, upper Rio Colorado valley.

These attributes allow other species to more easily colonize the harsh environments that cushion plants inhabit.

Cushion plants, looking like ground-hugging clumps of moss, escape the strong winds blowing a few inches above them.

This cushion plant is a perennial herb growing from a taproot and branching caudex.

The establishment of a new cushion plant on a windy slope, or freshly exposed Arctic tundra is not a common event.

On the upper slopes, low grasses and cushion plants grow among the boulders and scree.

Cushion plants often have hairy foliage and long taproots, to gather and retain moisture.

Cushion plants grow very slowly.

Inland habitats are often heath, either grass or shrubs, or feldmark made of cushion plants.

Chamaephytes also include cushion plants.

These include perennial grasses, sedges, forbs, cushion plants, mosses, and lichens.

While the terrain is mainly treeless and is often with no grass, the plains are covered with cushion plants.