Picos De Europa - Pyrenees - French Alps

[Vincent]

Marit,

I'll be more than happy to let you know the places I visited. I can also recommend "Alpine Plants Of Europe - A Gardener's Guide" by Jim Jermyn. I visited many of the places he writes about in this book, and plan to visit more in the future

[Vincent]

Thank you Maggi!

[tonyg]

@ TonyG Funny that I took a photo of the hybrid without knowing. There were so many different looking plants and I thought they were all biflora...

Above Saas Fee I found a large swarm of the hybrids, so many variations, some very attractive forms.  Both parents grew in the general area but the vast majority of plants in one area were the hybrid.  I have labelled the pics.  My understanding is that Sax biflora has larger, fleshy leaves, quite distinct from tight cushions of Sax oppositifolia and that the flowers are predominantly wine red.  I suspect many of the plants you saw were hybrids .... but there are more expert Saxifraga enthusiasts than I 

[Karaba]

Reply #32 : Draba aizoides
Reply #43 : flower bud are pendulous so, yes, it should be Campanula scheuchzeri
Reply #48 : Saxifraga biflora, and for me, same species as Reply #24 : petals are narrow and don't touch each other, leaves are wide specially on the flower stem. Colour is very variable, Flora gallica say about the colour : from white (most common in France) to wine red. about x kochi, Flora gallica says that " it is localised with only very few plants where both parent species grow together. It is not the same situation as in oriental Alps where it is nearly a stabilized hybrid ". You can find more pictures of this two species on this french website : http://www.florealpes.com and http://photoflora.free.fr/
Reply #51 : Salix reticulata
Reply #57 : Yes, Jacobaea incana ssp incana. Indeed, should be Myosotis alpestris
Reply #58 : maybe Erigeron alpinus : there is a circle of different flowers juste inside the ligulate flowers and the plant have not long hairs.