This is the real Edelweiss. It is a tundra flower that grows above 9000 feet and is not the national flower of Austria. In fact no one really paid attention to it until Rogers and Hammerstein wrote a song about it!
This is the real Edelweiss. It is a tundra flower that grows above 9000 feet and is not the national flower of Austria. In fact no one really paid attention to it until Rogers and Hammerstein wrote a song about it!
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Did you know that it is in the sunflower family? And that the scientific word for it, translated means “lions paw”, and that the german means nobel (edel) and white (weiss)?