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"The flowers of butcher's broom grow in the center of the cladophylls"

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Snow roots:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17299-unique-roots-let-plant-forage-in-the-snow.html

Botanists have discovered that Corydalis conorhiza grows a never-before described network of roots that reach upwards into the overlying snowpack to grab nutrients. This makes the plant the first species known to forage for nutrients in the snow.
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The team reasoned that the unusual roots must be used to gather nitrogen that is trapped in snow flakes as they form. To test the hypothesis they added a traceable isotope of nitrogen in water to snow above C. conorhiza plants. After a few days, the team found that parts of the plant were rich in the isotope.