Linda's Alpine Flowers Page

This page contains Linda's photographs of flowers in European mountains, mostly alpine (roughly 1800-2500m) and sub-alpine (roughly 1200-1800 m). The initial focus is on the just over 100 species that Linda photographed in the first half of July 2010, in the Dolomites (Dol'10) and the Berner Oberland above Interlaken (BOb'10). We hope to add more from elsewhere in the Swiss Alps, in the Austrian Alps, the Julian Alps in Slovenia, and the Pyrenees.

We use a Canon EOS base-level digital SLR with an 18-200mm zoom. This gives us a lot of convenience, but sacrifices image-precision and depth of focus.

Most of the photos are grouped by colour, mainly based on the dominant petal-colour, unless the impression from the stamens or leaves completely dominates that from the petals. The sections are:

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Groups, Meadows and Views

Dolomites – 4-10 July 2010
Globe Flowers
Lousewort
Cinquefoils and Track
Thyme and CatsPaw
Flowery Slope
Field of yellow flowers
Alpine Poppy
Papaver alpinum
Flowers and mountains
Meadows and mountains
Sainfoin and mountains
Lousewort and Wulfenii
Eritrichium and Saxifrages
Mountain Pine, Eritrichium and View
Alpenrosen and Cowshed
Meadow Clary and Path
Rampions and
Forest Path

Berner Oberland – 11-17 July 2010
Rattles and Knapweed
Orchids, Rattles,
Sainfoin and Daisies
Meadow Flowers
Narcissus-Flowered Anemone, Forget-Me-Nots,
and Interlaken
Ridge Flowers, Brienzersee, Grindalwald
Bistort and Rampions
Just yer average
flower meadow
... Cropped
Flower Field,
and Ian and Sue
Alpine Sainfoin
Alpenrosen and
the Jungfrau
Bistort and
the Wetterhorn
Above Oeschinensee ...
... and meadows,
opposite ...
... Blumlisalp's glaciers ...
... higher up the slope ...
... on the path down
from Bluemlisalp
Above Mürren ...
... ditto ...
... and still
Slope above Mürren,
and Common Monkshood
The shot that sums up
the walking holiday
Mürren view, with
Adenostyles alliariae

White and Cream Flowers
 
Narcissus Flowered Anemone
Anemone narcissifolia – Dol'10
Narcissus-Flowered Anemone ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Wood Anemone ...
... Anemone trifolia
Cropped – Dol'10
Wood Anemone ...
... Anenome trifolia
Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
 
Wood Anemone
Anemone nemorosa ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
 
Mountain Avens – Dol'10
  
Swiss Bedstraw ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Bladder Campions – Dol'10
Yellow Bellflower
Campanula thyrsoides – BOb'10
White-Bearded Bellflower
Campanula barbata
... ditto – BOb'10
Glacier Crowfoot
(flower and person) ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Mountain Dog Daisy
Anthemis montana ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
Northern Androsace
Rock Jasmine – Dol'10
  
Blunt-leaved Rock Jasmine
Androsace obtusifolia ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
 
Leafy Lousewort – Dol'10
  
Ascending Lousewort ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
Unbranched Lovage ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Great Masterwort
Astrantia major – BOb'10
 
 
 
Field Mouse-ear
Cerastium ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Small White Orchid
Pseudorchis albida ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Lesser Butterfly Orchid ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
 
? Orchid
...
... Cropped – BOb'10
  
Grass of Parnassus
Parnassia palustris ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Mountain Rose
Rosa montana ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
 
Rough Saxifrage
Saxifraga aspera – Dol'10
  
White Musky Saxifrage
Saxifraga exarata ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
Probable
Scree Saxifrage ...
... Saxifraga
androsacea ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
 
Annual Stonecrop,
Possibly ...
... Sedum annuum,
Cropped – Dol'10
  
Valerian sp. – Dol'10
   
Round-leaved Wintergreen
Pyrola rotundifolia ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
    
   
   
Unknown – Dol'10
Unknown – Dol'10

Yellow and Orange Flowers
Woolly Buttercup
Ranunculus lanuginosus – Dol'10
Golden Cinquefoil ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Cress, with Globularia – Dol'10
 
Spotted Gentian
Gentiana punctata – Dol'10
Golden Hawkesbeard
with Rattles – Dol'10
Heartsease – Dol'10
  
 
Ladies Mantle and
Birdsfoot Trefoil – BOb'10
  
Heart-Leaved Leopardsbane
Doronicum columnae ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
Orange Lily ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Wood-Treacle Mustard – Dol'10
 
Yellow Pasque Flower ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Alpine Poppy
Papaver alpinum – Dol'10
Musky Saxifrage
Saxifraga exarata ...
... Musky Saxifrage,
Cropped – Dol'10
Yellow Saxifrage Saxifraga aretoides ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
Verbascum ...
... Cropped once ...
... and again – Dol'10
   
Milk Vetch,
Cropped – Dol'10
Milk Vetch,
with Wulfenia – Dol'10
    
 
 
Yellow Violets ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Yellow Woods Violets – Dol'10

Blue Flowers
Campanula
Campanula ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Campanulas – BOb'10
 
Bearded Campanulas ...
... Cropped once ...
... Cropped again – Dol'10
  
 
Bearded Bellflower ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Clustered Bellflower – Dol'10
 
Peach-leaved Bellflower
Campanula persicifolia – BOb'10
  
Spiked Bellflower
Campanula spicata ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
   
Mountain Cornflower
Centaurea montana – BOb'10
    
Forget-me-nots – Dol'10
Spring Gentians – Dol'10
Spring Gentians – Dol'10
Spring Gentians ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
 
Trumpet Gentian – Dol'10
Trumpet Gentians – Dol'10
  
Globularia – Dol'10
Globularia with Cress – Dol'10
 
King of the Alps
Eritrichium ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Narrow-leaved Lungwort
Pulmonaria angustifolia – Dol'10
 
Rampions and
Forest Path ...
... Rampions ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
 
Dark Rampion – BOb'10
  
Scorzonera-leaved
Rampion ...
... Cropped – BOb'10

Mauve and Purple Flowers

 
 
 
Adentostylis
alliariae ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
See also under Red/Pink!
  
 
Alpine Bartsia – Dol'10
  
Alpine Calamint ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
 
Clematis, with
Alpenrosen ...
... Ditto – Dol'10
  
 
Cranesbill Sp. ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Meadow Cranesbill – Dol'10
Round-leaved Penny Cress
Thlaspi cepaefolium ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Neglected Fleabane
Erigeron neglectus – Dol'10
Neglected Fleabane
Erigeron neglectus – Dol'10
 
 
 
Fritillarias ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Black Horehound
Ballota nigra ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Mountain Houseleek
Sempervivum montanum ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Ground Ivy
GlechomaHederacea ...
... and Wild Strawberry,
Cropped – Dol'10
Common Monkshood ...
... cropped – BOb'10
Orchids, possibly
Common Spotted ...
... Orchids, Cropped – Dol'10
Orchid ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Common Spotted Orchid ...
... Cropped ...
... and Cropped again ...
... and in context – Dol'10
 
Orchid ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Round-Headed Orchid – BOb'10
 
 
 
Pansy ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
  
 
Prunella ?vulgaris – BOb'10
Prunella vulgaris ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
  
   
Rampion Sp. ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
    
 
Meadow Scabius ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
  
Leafless-stemmed Speedwell
Veronica aphylla – BOb'10
Alpine Sow-Thistle
Cicerbita alpina
... again ...
... and cropped – BOb'10
Musk Thistle
Carduus nutans – Dol'10
 
   
 
Thyme – BOb'10
    
Alpine Toadflax
Linarea vulgaris ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Alpine Toadflax
Linaria alpina ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
 
 
Vetch Sp. ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Viola cenisia ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Violets ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Possible Wulfenia, with ?Milk Vetch – Dol'10
Wulfenia, with
Milk Vetch ...
... Oxytropis
Cropped – Dol'10
Unknown – Dol'10

Red and Pink Flowers
Adenostyles alliariae – BOb'10
See also under Mauve/Purple!
Alpenrosen
Rhododendron ferrugineum
Dwarf Alpenrosen
Rhodothamnus chamaecistus ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Water Avens
Geum rivale ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
And more mature ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Bistort ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
Moss Campion ...
... Silene acaulis – Dol'10
Clover – Dol'10
Alpine Clover
Trifolium alpinum – Dol'10
Red Clover
Trifolium pratense ...
... Cropped – BOb'10
 
Daphne cneorum – Dol'10
Daphne cnoreum – Dol'10
  
Erica – Dol'10
 
 
 
Marsh Lousewort
Pedicularis palustris – Dol'10
Lousewort – Dol'10
  
 
Black Vanilla Orchid ...
... Cropped ...
... and Close-Up – Dol'10
  
Birds-Eye Primrose – Dol'10
Bird-Eye Primrose
Cropped – Dol'10
Least Primrose ...
... Again – Dol'10
 
 
 
Sticky Primrose
Primula glutinosa ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
  
Alpine Sainfoin
Hedysarum hedysaroides – Dol'10
Alpine Sainfoin – Dol'10
Alpine Sainfoin ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
 
Alpine Sainfoin – Dol'10
  
Mountain Sainfoin
Onobrychis montana – Dol'10
Mountain Sainfoin – Dol'10
Great Burnet Saxifrage
Pimpinella major – BOb'10
Purple Saxifrage
Saxifraga oppositifolia ...
... Cropped – Dol'10
Retuse-leaved Saxifrage
Saxifraga retusa – Dol'10
Rock Soapwort
Saponaria ocymoides ...
... Cropped – Dol'10

Other Flowers (green, brown, inconspicuous, etc.)

This is a page within the Clarke-Spinaze Photo Gallery. The site home-page is here

Contact: Linda or Roger

Created: 9 August 2010; Last Amended: 28 August 2010; small fixes 21 Jan 2012