Geographically this fungus is mostly found in very cold habitats.

A notable trait of their genus is an ability to adapt well to cold and somewhat arid habitat, like taiga or regions with Alpine climate.

This abnormal growth is often associated with windy, cold or arid habitats.

They are compact, mat-forming perennial herbs with a low, clumpy habit common among plants growing in harsh, exposed, cold, dry habitat.

It grows in all kinds of cold temperate to arctic habitats, from sea level up to 1000 m, in many places colouring the landscape.

Other common habitats include very cold habitats and highly saline, acidic, or alkaline water.

They had the ability to generate endothermic heat to survive in colder habitats.

This mountaintop-dwelling plant may suffer during climate change, because it cannot move to higher or colder habitat as warming occurs.

They could generate endothermic heat to survive in colder habitats.

Some grow in the tundra in Alaska and Siberia, which is an unusually cold habitat for orchids.