Wet Alpine Heath: With innumerable spikes of pale creamy-yellow flowers

I noticed that trees were very scarce at this altitude, but low, bushy shrubs, notably the Alpine Heath, with innumerable spikes of pale creamy-yellow flowers, were plentiful. - From Valley of the Flowers at Mt. Kosciuszko by Betty Askew, in The Sun December 1940. As you are heading into the valley the soil is getting soggier and …