Monday 3 June 2013

Alpine Wildflowers

I'm taking as many photos as I can of the wildflowers up here in the mountains.  Whether they are actual alpine wildflowers or garden weeds growing wild, I don't know.  They're pretty, though.  I'll label those I know, and I'll be adding to this post while we're in Switzerland.

Trumpet Gentian (Gentiana acaulis)
 


Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) - my favourite!
 



Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)

Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acer)

Buttercup sp. (Ranunculus sp)

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)  ?


Heart-leafed Globe Daisy (Globularia cordifolia)


Sweet Violet (Viola odorata)

Viola spp.

Alpine Pansy (Viola calcarata)

Plantain (Plantago spp.)  There's a fluffy one (Alpine Plantain?) and one with a purplish flower.


Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)

Spreading Bellflower (Campanula patula)

Bladder Campion (Silene vulgaris)

Red Campion (Silene dioica)  ?


Ragged Robin (Lychnis flos-cuculi)


Fairy Foxglove (Erinus alpinus)

Greater Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus alectorolophus)


White Crocus (Crocus albiflorus) 



Gagea (Gagea pratensis)  ?

Mountain Centaurea (Centaurea montana)

Thistle (Cirsium acaule)

Pretty sure these are bugle.


Butterbur (Petasites)  ?

Shrubby Milkwort  (Polygala chamaebuxus)


Alpine Snowbell (Soldanella alpina)

Cowslip (Primula veris)

Bird's-eye Primrose (Primula farinosa)

Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)  ?


I think this is Salvia.

Wood Cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum)

Storksbill (Geranium robertianum - the blue is Speedwell (Veronica))


Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa)  ?

Water Avens (Geum rivale)

Spiked Rampion  (Phyteuma spicatum)


Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratensis)




Common Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis)  ?


Valerian (Valeriana tripteris)  ?

Garlic Mustard (Alliaria)  ?




Alpine Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla alpina)  ?




Pulsatilla?


I think this one is a Euphorbia.













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