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Alpine Flower Quiz

While Ian and I waited for Laetitia and Astrid to finish their route on the Aiguille Rouge, sitting on a boulder chatting about this and that, we realised that within just a few metres of where we were sat was an incredible array of alpine flowers. Imagine how many different species their must be in a wider area and with a greater range of altitudes! And this is late August, what about Spring time! Anyway, here’s a simple quiz; what are the names of all these?

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12 thoughts on “Alpine Flower Quiz”

  1. Beautiful little flowers! :star: I certainly won’t be the winner of this quiz but I’m waiting for the solutions so I can enlarge my English (and Hungarian) vocabulary! 🙂

  2. I think that I may have some of these
    A has leaves like an Alchemilla
    B is a Rampion, Phyteuma hemisphericum according to my book
    C Saxifraga stellaris
    D I think Hawkweed is right
    E Campanula
    F looks like the seed of the hawkweed
    G looks like a Centaurea, a yellow cornflower?
    H Another saxifrage possibly?
    I I think Doronicum too
    J Astrantia
    K Campanula hirsuta, I photographed in the Dolys!
    L Scabious

      • The leaves in view on A are a red-herring, 😯 I think the flower growing amongst the Alchemilla is Marsh Grass-of-Parnassus.
      • I have no idea what F is! But it has definitely gone to seed, so you may well have it. 😉
      • Finally, I thought H was Thymeleaf Sandwort?

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