In the early summer they eat purple saxifrage.

At first he saw nothing but an unremarkable patch of steppe grass, with a little purple saxifrage.

I walked through thickets of purple saxifrage, along the flat, treeless riverbed.

Rose found a clump of purple saxifrage.

The flowers were saxifraga oppositifolia, the purple saxifrage.

The county flower is the Purple Saxifrage.

Look, Ann, at this purple saxifrage.

Purple Saxifrage (S. oppositifolia) is a popular floral emblem.

In particular they seem to enjoy the Purple Saxifrage and in summer their muzzles become purple from the plants.

At the base of the cliffs was a bright carpet of lichens and purple saxifrage, fertilized by the guano from the birds.

There were bright purple saxifrages, and mountain avens and cushions of moss campion studded with tiny white blossoms.

"During the brief arctic summer, the world's northernmost flower can be located on the tip of Kaffeklubben island - it is a Purple Saxifrage."

And in confirmation, a little Arctic flower, a purple saxifrage, blossomed improbably where the witch had planted it as a signal in a cranny of the rock.

He points out the purple saxifrage - 'the most northerly flowering plant in the world' - and a woolly caterpillar, which his son has unearthed, an amazing creature.

And there, in the cracks of this breadloaf (so apt, this anthropomorphic analogizing) was some small purple saxifrage, stubbornly hunkering down in the protection of broken rock.

The flowers of the tundra opened: white mountain avens, yellow poppies, white heather, crimson, yellow, red, white and purple saxifrage, lousewort, pink primulas, even the orange marigolds.

The top thousand feet of height is a superstructure composed mainly of millstone grit and shales, with a summit fringe of low cliffs decorated in places by purple saxifrage.

The species grows at a latitude of 83 40'N on Kaffeklubben Island, making it (and the purple saxifrage also found on the island) the northern most growing plant in the world.

Much of the area around Cadair Idris was designated a National Nature Reserve in 1957, and is home to arctic-alpine plants such as purple saxifrage and dwarf willow .

There, I caught sight of white tents in the distance, on tundra carpeted with a soft green and purple fuzz - wild purple saxifrage, the foliage of the far north's brief summer season.

The ledges also support Woodrush, Polypody and Water Avens, Purple Saxifrage, Yellow Saxifrage, Hoary Whitlowgrass and Roseroot.

The plant cover is sparse in the drier areas while the wetter areas have a fair cover of mosses, sedges, shrubs such as purple saxifrage, arctic willow, and arctic poppy and rushes.

In the chalky soils of this sublevel, the vegetation is very rich and forms prairies with mountain avens as the characteristic species, and also purple saxifrage, velvetbells, Alpine pussytoes and Alpine veronica.

Saxifraga oppositifolia, the purple saxifrage or purple mountain saxifrage, is a species of edible plant that is very common all over the high Arctic and also some high mountainous areas further south, including northern Britain, the Alps and the Rocky Mountains.

Some of the plant species found are arctic black spruce, arctic willow, cottongrass, crustose lichens, kobresia, moss species, wood rush, wire rush, purple saxifrage, Dryas species, sedges, Diapensia, arctic poppy, mountain avens, mountain sorrel, river beauty, moss campion, bilberry, and arctic white heather.

The larvae feed on Saxifraga species, including Saxifraga oppositifolia.

On shallow soils and exposed sites, open communities occurred with, for example,Lycopodium selago, L. alpinum, L. clavatum, Armeria maritima, Artemisia, Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. hypnoides, S. stellaris, and Helianthemum.