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PHOTO OF THE DAY October 21, 2003  

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Where St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada
When 1997
Photographer Robert Clark

The showy moss campion brightens an isolated Yukon peak. How did the plant species reach this isolated region? Winds likely carried seeds over a glacial landscape.

—Text adapted from "Nunataks," December 1998, National Geographic magazine

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