French and Italian Alps 2016

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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!

[Karaba]

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.

[hadacekf]

If the Anemone growing in the Italian Alps, it is A. baldensis.