Late visit to the Alps

[Gabriela]

I wasn't questioning the species Yann, sorry I didn't explained well.
It is about Pedicularis growing between rocks, apparently with no other plants nearby. Pedicularis are parasitic on other plants roots and until now all I've seen in the wild were growing closely in plant associations (usually in meadows).
This is the reason they are hard to germinate/cultivate.

It is very interesting to see this photo (regardless of the species). I meant to ask what other plants were in the near vicinity, if any.

[Yann]

no except these 2 species nothing except rocks and above them :

[Yann]

around 2000-2500m the vegetation change a lot

Micranthes stellaris


Gentiana bavarica


Luzula lutea


Carex lepidocarpa and Carex flava


Festuca melanopsis

[Yann]

I'm not sure of this one, will confirm tomorrow

[Gabriela]

Thanks Yann, don't know what the yellow flower is. In any case, that's why we have the saying - you have to see it to believe it - a Pedicularis by itself among rocks

What a Gentiana!

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Yann, don't know what the yellow flower is.

Isn't it a Primula ?

[Yann]

ah yes sorry i forgot to label photo, yes it's an auricula bouquet.

[Yann]

still at level 2000-2300 you can find fields of Jacobaea, Veronica and Trifolium.

Jacobaea incana subsp. incana


Minuartia sedoides


Pachypleurum mutellinoides & Veronica alpina


Trifolium badium


and the classical Myosotis alpestris

[Yann]

near the old Herpie mines the soil is more acid and the soil is covered with Arenaria multicaulis



in a kind of heavy mud i found this plant covered with clay and grit: Doronicum grandiflorum



Leucanthemopsis alpina (4 steps of development on this plant)


Poa laxa


Ranunculus aconitifolius (in better state than in my garden!)

[ruweiss]

So beautiful - thank you for showing.

[Yann]

Tomorrow we'll travel to Galibier (Cliff was there 2 days ago)

[Yann]

Col du Galibier, i guess made famous by the Tour de France but my goal wasn't to cycle 



I explored the Zone 1 a lot, it contains Eritrichium, Androsace, Saxifraga, and lots of treasures.
To visit the area 1 walking sticks are required, it's a dangerous schists hill,
i know several peoples who lost their camera and trousers in this hill.

Vallon de la Roche noire should be visited in june before the cows enter the game



Hylotelephium anacampseros



Saxifraga exarata subsp. exarata (10 stamens)

[Karaba]

ah yes sorry i forgot to label photo, yes it's an auricula bouquet.

I think that it is an other Primula, not a one from calcareous montains of Prealps, but a lilac one from the Alps, Primula hirsuta

[Yann]

Yvain you're right, i was thinking of lutea answering auricula. But checking size of leafs, lutea is to exclude.
So yes it can be hirsuta, here's one still in bloom. Primula auricula is also recorded for the Grandes Rousses but foliage is different, glabrous and less thick.

[Yann]

Botrychium simplex



Cerastium latifolium



Sempervivum montanum



Gentiana asclepiadea


Eritrichium nanum