Picos De Europa - Pyrenees - French Alps

[Vincent]

Hello everybody!
This is my first post on this forum, but I have spent a lot of time scrolling through these pages, mainly admiring beautiful grown plants and reading helpful explanations of how it is done. Many thanks for that!
I would like to share some pictures I took this summer while walking through some parts of the mountains mentioned in the title. The main aim was to see as many alpine plants as possible - and I did see many of those I was hoping to see. And those I didn't see give me one more reason to come back to these areas another time.

    Jasione cavanillesii
    Lithodora diffusa
    Linaria alpina subsp. filicaulis (2)
    Matthiola perennis
    Narcissus asturiensis

[Vincent]

The pictures in the last post and in this post have been taken in the picos de europa. Not sure about the hieracium...

    Aquilegia pyrenaica subsp. discolor
    Jurinea humilis
    Scilla verna
    Erodium glandulosum
    Hieracium mixtum

[Vincent]

hrrrm. I'm trying hard to ulpoad more pictures in exactly the same way I've done before but it didn't work four times in a row. I just end up on the 'start a new topic' page, instead of the forum page after a sucessfull post. Can anybody help me out?

[Maggi Young]

Hello Vincent- lovely pictures from the Picos. 

Wearing my "moderator's hat"  I have made a slight change to your profile so you should now be returned to the topic after you make a post. Hope that will help.

I'm also going to modify the posts you have already made  to show the names of the photo files - that way the search engine can find the photos. 

[vivienne Condon]

Hello Vincent,
how lovely to see your pictures, we are just back from that area as well and I can't wait to get back there. According to Margaret and Henry Taylor's book the Hieracium mixtum that name is correct. I have grown it for many years calling it Crepis sp. having no idea what it's name was. It was good to get it identified.

[Lesley Cox]

Hello Vincent, I'm delighted to see Narcissus asturiensis. I wonder is that one the "Mum" or Dad" of my new (and first) tiny baby, grown from seed collected in the Picos de Europa and in flower now?

[shelagh]

Most enjoyable Vincent, brought back memories of 1999.

[Vincent]

I'm trying again

Androsace villosa
Jasione cavanillesii
Anemone pavoniana or is it A. baldensis now?
Campanula arvatica

[Vincent]

Here are some more:

Linum suffroticosum subsp. salsoloides
Euphorbia chamaebuxus
Narcissus asturiensis
Lithodora diffusa

[Vincent]

Echium asturiensis?
Dactylorhiza maculata
Centaurea sp.
I forgot the name of the last plant and I can't look it up now because I gave back the picos book I had. It's an endemic of cantabria belonging to the brassicacea.

[Vincent]

One more Jasione cavanillesii 
Dianthus sp. growing near the puerto de san glorio
Sedum sp.

[Vincent]

On to the west pyrenees, above Gourette in the Valee d'Ossau.

Campanula cochleariifolia
Anemone narcissiflora
Aquilegia pyrenaica
Aster alpinus

[Vincent]

Ranunculus pyrenaeus
Primula integrifolia
Meconopsis cambrica

[Vincent]

Ranunculus parnassifolius
phlegmatic sheep
Veronica nummularia

[Vincent]

Next up - Gavarnie in the zentral pyrenees.

Phyteuma hemisphaericum?
Leucanthemopsis alpina
Armeria maritima subsp. alpina?