Inking Girt - The Vegetation of the Memmiath Mountains
Building the Vegetation on the Fantastical World of Erudus.
The Memmiath Mountains have jagged peaks. They live close to lush forests, flowering meadows, and man rivers that disappear into hidden underground caverns.
The mountainsides have exposed layers of colorful stone.
Although warm by mountain standards, the Memmiaths experience remarkable variation in climate. They have cool mornings filled with mists, warm afternoons with some thunderstorms. There is only snow at the very top of peaks, but rainfall fills the region creating spectacular waterfalls that descend down the mountains.
The valleys on the mountains are sometimes broad and carpeted with grasses and wildflowers, while others narrow into steep canyons where sunlight reaches the ground for only a few hours each day.
Some peaks, on higher elevations, have clouds that cling to the peaks.
Lower elevations contain have forests with rich emerald canopies throughout much of the year. Higher elevations transition into twisted pines and firs shaped by the wind and hardy bushes.
Vegetation
There is a large diversity of plants due to a warmer temperature than on Erudus Meadows are often covered in vibrant colors. There are also ferns, flowering vines, moss, lichens, shrubs and a variety of other plants.
Aerial Pine
A large evergreen that has dark emerald needles, reddish brown bark and deep roots that grip to sheer cliffs. The large cones have edible seeds, that are often stored by the local people to use in bread, and to carry when traveling long distances.
Ages Fir
This type of tree grows on exposed ridges. The needles are small, sharp and blue-green. Although the trunks are twisted by their movement in the wind. The wood is so hard, and survives so long, that it is used in construction.
Rock Cedar
Rock cedar’s roots help to maintain the stability of the stones. It has thick grey bark and lives for hundreds of sols.
Fireberry Shrubs
A shrub with crimson berries that are popular with the settlements, as well, as the wildlife. Produces bright scarlet berries. These berries are collected after the first frost and then used for jelly.
Cliff Sage
This plant has grey-green leaves. It is drought tolerant and grows from ledges. The plant leaves are used by local medicine people to induce sleep and calm stressed individuals.
Snow Blossom
This plant has large creamy blossoms that flower just after the snow melts. They have a sweet fragrance and thick blueish leaves.
Sunrise Flower
These flowers have golden flowers that open with the sunrise and close at the sunset. They face the sun and cover the hills in spring. Sunrise Flowers are worshiped by the locals. When they return in spring, the people thank their goddess of the skies Suina, that the harshness of winter is open and that the world is once again moving on
This is an excellent pollinator plant.
Crimson Spires
Tall flowering stalks reach high up in the sky. They can reach higher than a man’s height. The deep red blossoms are popular with birds, bees and butterflies.
Silver Mist
This plant grows in silver-green cushions. They cover the rocks preventing erosion and adding moisture to the land.
Mountain Clover
This plant grows in densely packed mounds. It has purple flowers that are a source of food for wildlife.
Cliff Vine
This plant falls down from cliffs in long flowering tendrils with pink blossoms. The seeds fly through the wind reseeding themselves in inaccessible locations.
Wind Grass
This plant has long silver blades that sway in the wind. From afar they create intricate patterns that makes the mountains look like their shimmering.
Rock Succulent
This plant stores water in its thick greenish-blue leaves. Travelers extract the water to drink when high in the mountains and lost.
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