Late visit to the Alps

[Yann]

I was finally able to stay several days in the Alps after several shifts (heavy snow in june, work, other trips).

I repaid a visit to Huez areas where Gaston Bonnier found inspiration to start Flore de France in 1871.

We're near the Herpie mines, Lac Blanc and the south area of Lac de Fare (the most interesting zone)


map


Geum montanum


Campanula cochlearifolia


Pedicularis comosa subsp. comosa
Pedicularis ascendens


Oxytropis campestris

[Yann]

Names are on photos, i can add tags if necessary for google crawler (Maggi?)


Silene acaulis subsp. bryoides


Gentiana alpina


Eriophorum scheucheri


Noccaea rotundifolia


Carex foetida

[Yann]

Many are classicals but always a pleasure to see them 


Linaria alpina subsp. alpina


Papaver alpinum subsp. alpinum


Ranunculus glacialis


Allium schoenoprasum


Astrantia minor

[Harald-Alex.]

Hallo Yann, this are wonderful fotos of natural grown alpine plants and their flowers! I found on my turn to Iceland, Svalbard and Nordkap-Norway a similar fantastic arctic-alpine world of plants.

[Yann]

a few more from Lac de Fare


Potentilla aurea


Potentilla aurea


Adenostyles leucophylla


Bupleurum stellatum

more to come in the week

[Yann]

Hallo Yann, this are wonderful fotos of natural grown alpine plants and their flowers! I found on my turn to Iceland, Svalbard and Nordkap-Norway a similar fantastic arctic-alpine world of plants.

Many species can be found in the northern regions, they all appeared after the huge glaciations and climb higher thousands years after.

[Gerdk]

Yann,
Thank you for this excellent presented report of your tour! It seems Bupleurum stellatum has
potential for growing as an alpine for the rock garden.

Gerd

[David Nicholson]

Lovely set of pictures Yann.

[Yann]

Yes it's an easy growing species, some others species are very difficult because they need huge difference of temperatures between night and day.

[Leucogenes]

Hi Yann

Also by me the greatest admiration for these great pictures. Fantastic vegetation. But not only the plants are great. Especially the color of the rock is phenomenal. The rock I work in my garden is exactly the same colour. I'll get them rocks from a quarry a mile away. I particularly like these nuances of red, brown and yellow.

Thanks again for the beautiful pictures...

Thomas

[Maggi Young]

Names are on photos, i can add tags if necessary for google crawler (Maggi?)

I'm happy to do that for you, Yann. (It's almost as good as seeing them  there!)

[tonyg]

Some lovely pictures.  Even after a hot summer you have found nice plants and beautiful scenery too.

[Gabriela]

Beautiful presentation of an exquisite alpine region Yann!

Always interesting to see species common to the Carpathians, mingled with many other beauties. I am especially intrigued by the Pedicularis comosa growing between rocks - do you remember what other species were growing nearby?

[Yann]

Gabriela: no other species except this one, i've others photos with the leafs much more developped. I think this one is  ascendens.

[Yann]

I reply to myself, i checked my POI on my photos, i shooted a group like the one shown here, it's P.  ascendens no doubt. The others (i'll then show later) are comosa with typical foliage. If you zoom you'll see the typical yellow and glabrous "tooth" of ascendens.