nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqxf0ym6mapwccm84etf5drhul4mmc7nc8xknufk56zjvhpj2wx25ql4gt80 (nprofile…gt80) Interesting question.
Clearly they're not exactly the same, because there's a genetic difference between the two.
But if we were counting to see who could find the most different plants on a hike, I counted an A. alpina and then 4km away counted A. alpina again, you could be justifiably annoyed. It leads into the question: what makes a species?
I get genetic diversity in A. alpina is old news to many people (https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcr134), but it would be news to a lot of our readers.
Botany One
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