Heat‐tolerant Flowering Plants of Active Geothermal Areas in Yellowstone National Park

Plants in geothermally heated soils

Little is known about flowering plants that have adapted to the extreme temperatures and soil conditions often found in Yellowstone's active geyser basins. Stout and Al-Niemi (pp. 259-267) survey the most common plant species in such environments and examine heat shock protein expression elicited by the prevalent high rhizosphere temperatures.