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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Vincent on June 21, 2016, 01:03:03 PM
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This year I had the chance to make several trips to the alps and I would like to share some of the pictures. I did visit some non-mountainous Provence areas on my first trip, which was at the end of february, but the three other trips were concentrated on the alps. I will begin with some pictures from february.
Anemone hortensis
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Not exactly sure what this one is called. Matricaria maybe. Some vineyards where completely covered in it.
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Posting pictures doesn't work for me, I've tried at least a dozen times. I end up on an empty page, and my post is not being posted. Can anybody help me out here?
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Hi Vincent - no idea what is happening for you - but there are great photos from you appearing here. You do not see photos in preview - perhaps that is the issue? Pix only appear when posted.
John W. reported that he only saw the text of his posts until he clicked on the post, but I have no idea what's happening there either. So many people using so many different tablets etc that it is hard to know what the problem might be.
As I say , your posts are appearing here perfectly. 8)
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Thank you for answering. My initial post worked perfectly fine, but after that, out of a dozen attempts only one came through. I thought it might be too many pictures for one post so I reduced the amount but that doesn't help. I just get redirected to an empty page. I will try again.
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Iris lutescens
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Five attempts later. Only the first one came through. Maybe it has something to do with the resize function so I'll try resizing myself.
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Helleborus foetidus
Arisarum vulgare
Ophrys fusca
Euphorbia characias
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Barlia robertiana
Iris unguicularis
Uploading works fine now that I resize the pictures myself.
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Moving on to April. On my way to the alps I made a stop in Crémieu to see Pulsatilla rubra. It was a fantastic start and a lovely day.
Primula vulgaris (P. acaulis in Flora Alpina ???)
Viola sp. with much larger flowers than its neighbors
and Primula x polyantha (P. veris x P. vulgaris)
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Pulsatilla rubra. What a way to start the holidays. I could photograph these for hours. And I probably did :)
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My next stop was in the Alpes Maritimes, in the area above Grasse.
Iris lutescens
Tragopogon porrifolius
Ophrys incubacea ?
Ophrys sp.
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Hepatica nobilis
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More Hepatica
and Androsace chaixii
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Daphne laureola
Primula veris
Hepatica nobilis
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Hepatica nobilis. So much variation!
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Erythronium dens-canis
Gagea
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Corydalis solida
Fritillaria montana
or orientalis or caussolensis. Seen on the Plateau de Caussols.
The following document says F. caussolensis is synonymic with F. montana (http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/publications/cando641/C641_133-141.pdf (http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/publications/cando641/C641_133-141.pdf)).
Flora Alpina calls it F. orientalis.
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Fritillaria montana
not easy to capture it's true beauty
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Fritillaria involucrata
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Hyacinthoides italica (syn. Scilla italica)
Hepatica nobilis
Primula veris
Draba aizoides
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Crocus versicolor
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Crocus versicolor
Narcissus pseudonarcissus ssp. provincialis
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Moving on to May. Again french alps only. My first stop was around the Mont Cenis area and from there on I moved south with my last station being, again, the Plateau de Caussols.
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Callianthemum coriandrifolium. I saw many plants in one spot but only one was flowering. Since it was my first day I was sure I'd be seeing plenty more and also the weather was very bad so I only took a couple of pictures, non of which came out very good. Still it's a wonderful plant, and now at least I know where to go in years to come.
Pulsatilla alpina maybe ssp. cottianea? Growing on Mont Cenis
I find it difficult to find out the names of Violas, at least I don't have the proper litarature for it. This one was very lovely, in many different colors (white, yellow, purple and mixed) growing along the Pulsatillas
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Viola sp.
Pulsatilla alpina ssp. ...
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Great photos of a well known area.
Many thanks for posting, Vincent!
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Pulsatilla montana - Puy-St-Pierre - Most were already over. Many meadows were covered with seedheads
Senecio doronicum
Vitaliana primuliflora (Androsace vitaliana in Flora Alpina)
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Myosotis alpina
Pulsatilla montana
Viola sp
Vitaliana primuliflora
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Thank you Thomas! Got a few more to come
Ranunculus pyrenaeus, or R. kuepferi as Flora Alpina manages to confuse me again. These plants look a lot like what I saw in the Pyrenees, just much more beautiful. Bigger flowers and many plants producing double or semi-double flowers. The picture for R. kuepferi in the Flora Alpina and what I saw before as that species looks very different from the plants pictured here.
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Crocus albiflorus I guess
Soldanella sp.
Pulsatilla vernalis
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Pulsatilla vernalis
Scorzonera or maybe Tragopogon
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Dactylorhiza sambucina
Daphne cneorum
Pulsatilla alpina ssp. alpina ?
Androsace carnea maybe ssp. brigantiaca (A. adfinis ssp. brigantiaca in Flora Alpina)
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Gentiana verna ?
Gentiana sp (clusii or acaulis)
No name for this
Pulsatilla alpina ssp. alpina ?
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Pulmonaria sp.
Primula marginata
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Pulsatilla alpina ssp. alpina ?
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Anemone ranunculoides
Primula farinosa
Tulipa australis
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Tulipa australis
Globularia cordifolia
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Plateau de Caussols
Helianthemum appeninum
Leucanthemum burnatii
Anthyllis montana
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Orchis morio
Erysimum sp.
Polygala sp.
Orchis tridentata (I think)
Helianthemum appeninum
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Paeonia officinalis ssp. huthii
Orchis militaris
Anthericum liliago
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Vincent - this "trip" with you is wonderful - thank you for all your effort to post.
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Wow Vincent - beautiful places and so many great pictures! Thanks for showing, I'll come back to the thread to look more closely through them.
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Moving on to April. On my way to the alps I made a stop in Crémieu to see Pulsatilla rubra. It was a fantastic start and a lovely day.
Primula vulgaris (P. acaulis in Flora Alpina ???)
Viola sp. with much larger flowers than its neighbors
and some Primula hybrids. They appeared wherever P. vulgaris and P. veris meet. Does anybody know what they are called?
This is Primula x polyantha, a very common hybrid. Other hybrid between P. vulgaris and elatior (x digeana) and between veris and elatior (x media) are much rarer.
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My next stop was in the Alpes Maritimes, in the area above Grasse.
Iris lutescens
Tragopogon porrifolius ?
And I don't know about the Ophrys.
OK for Tragopogon,
First Ophrys might be incubacea.
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Plateau de Caussols
Helianthemum appeninum
Leucanthemum graminifolium
Don't know the name for this one (IMGP8886)
This can not be Leucanthemum graminifolium which is endemic from south Massif central and Corbières. Probably Leucanthemum burnati
Last one looks like Anthyllis montana
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Crocus versicolor
Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Can anybody tell me if there are different subspecies in the alps? Flora Alpina doesn't recognize any, but do they ever? :) If there are different ones, does anybody know which one this might be?
Tison described the ssp. from caussols as ssp. provincialis. It is smaller and usually there is no color difference between tepal and paracorola. It has sometimes be confused with N. minor.
About Scilla italica, it's now Hyacinthoides italica. There were a lots of recent changes in name. For the french flora, I only use Tela botanica (http://www.tela-botanica.org/page:eflore) and Flora Gallica, the last french flora. You can use Siflore (http://siflore.fcbn.fr)for the distribution
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Haven't made any efforts towards finding out the name of this one. Do you know? :)
Looks like Senecio doronicum.
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Great pictures Vincent and a lot of plants that I would like to see in nature ! I will have to contact you if I organize a trip in the following years :P
about Anemone alpina : Flora gallica gather all white subspecies in alpina, differences between ssp are not clear and this need more studies.
Can't help with viola, i have the same problem :P
Gentiana verna : not sure this is verna, maybe another very close species.
Androsace : this is now Androsace adfinis. A. carnea is from Pyrenées. Same with Ranunculus kuepferii, pyrenaeus is from... Pyrenees.
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Vincent,
wonderful images from the wild. 8)
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Thank you everybody!
Thank you very much Yvain for all the informations and corrections, it is so much appreciated! If you need any informations, feel free to contact me, I will happily give you further details.
I very much liked the Primula x polyanthas I saw, they are beautiful. I would love to see some of the other ones you mentioned.
Don't know why I thought it was Leucanthemum graminifolium. I must have picked up the name looking at your photos and forgot to look it up ;D Both are very lovely, I would love to try them in the garden.
About the Narcissus. Is N. minor growing in the same area as the ssp. provincialis, by that I mean the area around Caussols? By the way, I did not find this in Caussols, but on the Col de Blein, a few kilometres to the north. But I'm guessing it's still the same ssp..? :)
To my mistake I thought all Androsace carnea would now be called A. adfinis.
With the Ranunculus I was confused because I read in 'Alpine Plants of Europe' by Jim Jermyn that R. pyrenaeus would be occuring in the Alps. And Flora Alpina lists R. pyrenaeus as a synonym for R. kuepferi
I've got a few more pictures to come, maybe some more to correct :)
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Last heap of pictures from June. All taken in the area around lake Garda.
Primula glaucescens
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The weather was very bad for the most part. But finding many treasures made up for it very much.
Fritillaria tubiformis
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Ranunculus thora
Ranunculus montanus maybe
Viola sp.
Geum montanum
This little guy spent quite a few hours with me on the mountain. He followed me from the place I parked my car. I think he was happy to find somebody to accompany him marking his territory :)
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Don't know the name of these two
Fritillaria tubiformis
Anemone narcissiflora
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Anemone narcissiflora
Clematis alpina
Melampyrum nemorosum
Lago d'Idro
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Lago d'Idro again
Potentilla sp
Gentiana clusii
Polygala chamaebuxus smells very nice, a fruity fragrance
Primula spectabilis
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Ranunculus bilobus
Pinguicula alpina and Erica carnea
Primula spectabilis & P. auricula
P. auricula
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Globularia nudicaulis, Erica carnea, Primula spectabilis
Anemone trifolia
Erica carnea
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Paeonia officinalis
Pulsatilla alpina I think. Can it be confused with Anemone baldensis?
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Callianthemum kernerianum
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Callianthemum kernerianum
Beautiful little thing, but mostly single flowered and growing underneath something else (e.g. small shrubs und grasses) so kinda hard to see. I kept looking for plants with multiple flowers but really only found a few. I found one with 5 flowers but it was already going over :)
I was glad to find the Orto Botanico (a small botanic garden) on Monte Baldo, especially because they had info-signs on many of the Monte Baldo species with correct informations regarding altitude. On the internet I had read that C. kernerianum was only growing between !600-1800 m, and in the book 'Guide des fleurs de montagne' by Grey-Wilson & Blamey it says growing under 1500m. In the Orto Botanico it said 1100-2100m so then I knew I just had to go up :)
Globularia nudicaulis
Paederota bonarota
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Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
Silene acaulis
Daphne cneorum ? honestly not sure how to distinguish D. cneorum and D. petrae
Daphne mezereum
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And some more mountain pictures. Thank you for taking a look at my pictures!
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About the Narcissus. Is N. minor growing in the same area as the ssp. provincialis, by that I mean the area around Caussols? By the way, I did not find this in Caussols, but on the Col de Blein, a few kilometres to the north. But I'm guessing it's still the same ssp..? :)
N. minor have been misidentified in southern french alps because it's look like N. pseudonarcissus provincialis. I don't know the exact distribution of this subspecies, but it's not endemic to Caussols. N. minor is from Spain.
To my mistake I thought all Androsace carnea would now be called A. adfinis.
With the Ranunculus I was confused because I read in 'Alpine Plants of Europe' by Jim Jermyn that R. pyrenaeus would be occuring in the Alps. And Flora Alpina lists R. pyrenaeus as a synonym for R. kuepferi
These are new taxonomical point of view. R. pyrenaeus has long been a synonym of kuepferi or vice-versa. As I said, my reference is now Flora Gallica but taxonomic review can be disappointing. If you use Flore méditerranéenne de France continentale (which is a great book for the french mediterranean flora), there are some differences with Flora Gallica even if JM Tison is co-author of these 2 recent books.
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If the Anemone growing in the Italian Alps, it is A. baldensis.