Saplings of sweet birch (Betula lenta) growing from cracks and crevices among the rocks in a boulder field on Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National

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Saplings of sweet birch (Betula lenta) growing from cracks and crevices among the rocks in a boulder field on Blackrock Summit in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.

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Photo credit: © Gerry Bishop / Alamy / Afripics
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