The Alps are home to an impressive floral pool with more than 1,200 different varieties of plants found in the Vanoise massif only. One of the most colourful images you may have of the French Alps in summer is of high pastures thick with Alpine flowers. Here is a selection of flowers we photographed during one of our walk in the Vanoise National Park.
Alpine pasqueflower – Anémone des Alpes – Pulsatilla alpina
Mountain avens – Dryade à huit pétale – thé des Alpes – Dryas octopetala
Yellow bell-flower – Campanule en thyrse – Campanula thyrsoides
Alpine aster – Aster des Alpes – Aster alpinus
Snow gentian – Gentiane des neiges – Gentiana nivalis
Alpenrose – Rhododendron ferrugineux or Rose des Alpes – Rhododendron ferrugineum
Alpine snow-bell – Soldanelle des Alpes – Soldanella alpina
Moss campion – Silène sans pédoncule – Silene exscapa
Spring gentian – Gentiane printanière – Gentiana verna
Yellow thistle – Cirse épineux – Cirsium spinosissimum
Oneflower fleabane – Vergerette à une fleur – Erigeron uniflorus
Edelweiss – Étoile d’argent – Leontopodium alpinum
Linaria alpina – Linaire des Alpes (or Muflier des Alpes or Gueule-de-lion des Alpes)
Stemless gentian – Gentiane de Koch or Gentiane acaule – Gentiana acaulis
Stemless gentian – Gentiane de Koch – Gentiane acaule – Gentiana acaulis
Marguerite – Oxeye daisy – Leucanthemum vulgare
Globe-flower – Trolle d’Europe – Trollius europaeus
Meadow rue – Pigamon à feuilles d’ancolie – Thalictrum aquilegiifolium
Great Yellow Gentian – Gentiane jaune – Gentiana lutea
Perennial Cornflower – Centaurée des montagnes – Centaurea montana
Mountain houseleek – Joubarbe des montagnes – Sempervivum montanum
Burnt Orchid – Orchis Brulé – Orchis ustulata
Heath Spotted-orchid – Orchis tacheté – Dactylorhiza maculata
Vanilla orchid – Nigritelle noire or orchis vanillé – Nigritella nigra
All these photos were taken in the vicinity of Pralognan-la-Vanoise.
Find out more about the Vanoise National Park here.
View our Flickr Photoset on the Flowers of the Vanoise massif here.
