Jim Brandenburg / Arctic Wolf (Canis lupus) alpha male known as Buster, smelling Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flowers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Pal Hermansen / Svalbard poppy (Papaver dahlianum) Svalbard, Norway, July.

Jeff Wilson / Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum) flowering on tundra, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, June 2008, Taken on location for the BBC series, Frozen Planet.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum), with flowers that follow the sun for early seed ripening. Greenland.

David Tipling / Arctic poppies on cliff top {Papaver radicatum} St Paul Is, Pribilof's, Bering Sea, Alaska

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flowers blooming in summer, Nain, Labrador, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flowers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Michio Hoshino / Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flowers and Moss Campion (Silene acaulis) on tundra, Alaska

Jim Brandenburg / Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flower bending under ice and snow, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

Jim Brandenburg / Arctic Poppy (Papaver lapponicum) flowers, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum) and musk ox skull. Ellesmere Island, Canada

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Arctic poppies (Papaver radicatum). Ellesmere Island, Canada

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Svalbard poppy (Papaver dahlianum) in flower and unopened flower bud growing close to the ground. Svalbard, Norway, June. endemic to Svalbard

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Arctic poppies {Papaver radicatum} Ellesmere Is Canada

NEIL NIGHTINGALE / Arctic poppies {Papaver radicatum} Ellesmere Is Canada

Jenny E. Ross / Arctic Poppy (Papaver radicatum), Wrangel Island, Siberia, Chukchi Sea, Russia. August