More than 1100 native plant species are found in the High Country region, many of these specially adapted to survive the severe winter climate.

Mature Alpine Ash forests are common as you go up the mountains, and Snow Gums are the predominant eucalypts in the woodlands around the snowline, but in higher exposed areas where conditions are too severe for trees, the vegetation changes to heathlands, alpine herbfields and grasslands, mossbeds and snowpatch communities.

In the warmer months, usually January and February, it is these higher exposed areas that are transformed into a sea of wildflowers with about 280 species of flowering plants including heath, wildflowers and grasses. Twelve species, including the Bogong Daisy-bush and Silky Daisy, are found nowhere else in the world.

The area around Mt Hotham and Dinner Plain becomes a mass of alpine daisies and Billy Buttons some poking through the vestiges of remaining snow drifts. The Bogong High Plains take on a new guise with a mass of summer grasses and purple and yellow wildflowers bursting through as the snow recedes to white patches on the southern slopes.

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