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What flowers? New species or one that crossed the ocean?
https://www.sciencealert.com/striking-expansion-of-two-antarctic-flowering-plants-is-a-climate-warning
From the article:
Ok just wondering if it was some long frozen plantlife that just thawed out recently.
Nah just two full months earlier than it should have happened
Some seeds are carried place to place on the winds. They probably came from Australia or southern Chile or Argentina or some such place.