Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Plant Grows Under Snow. [ARTICLE]

Plant Grows Under Snow.

The Alpine flower called the sol danella, produces heat sufficient so that it grows even under a consider able' covering of snow. If the snow is not too deep the plant sends its stem up through the snow, which ia melted, by the heat If the snow ia deeper the heat melts a little hollow chamber out about the plant, thus giving it room to expand and blossom. It has been found that some of the plants of the arum family, which are common in the Mediterranean region, develop a temperature of as high as 100 degrees when their buds are opening. To a less degree probably all plants furnish their own heat under certain conditions, but ordinarily vegetation, being by nature adapted to its surroundings, gets the heat it needs fro pi the soil, air and sun. Animals are of a higher order than plants partly because they are more Independent 9f their surroundings.—r The Pathfinder.