Impressions around Brandner Valley / Austria

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks for the compliments everyone.

Tony, I also hope for a meeting next year - if we find a common date!
Chris and Celine had some friends from Ireland in the hotel, and although
they didn't understand one another it went really well.

Maggi I don't have a Heidi and Peter photo with sheep, but I have this one:



1 - Waterfalls in the Sarottlavalley
2 - Waterfalls in the Sarottlavalley
3 - Breakfast in Sarottlavalley
4 - View down to the Brandnervalley
5 - Alvierriver
6 - Anthericum liliago (thanks Olga and Hans for ID)
7 - Aconitum napellus
8 - wonderful Alba form of Campanula latifolia - more than 1m tall
9 -     "                               "

[Olga Bondareva]

6 - Anthericum liliago?

8, 9 - Campanula latifolia f. Alba?

[Hans J]

Yes - it is a Anthericum !

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks Olga and Hans for ID!
I've already updated the list above.

Here some more photos:
1 - beautiful rockwall in Brand
2 - rock avalanche above Palüd barrack
3 - Globularia cordifolia
4 - Orchidmeadow above Palüd
5 - Eriophorum scheuchzeri  (thanks to Franz for ID)
6 - View to Palüd cablecar station
7 - Scene from Bürser canyon
8 - Little rock in Bürser canyon
9 - Astrantia major (thanks to Olga for ID)
10 - Orobanche elatior (thanks to Maggi for ID)

[Olga Bondareva]

3 – Jasione laevis?
9 – Astrantia major
10 – parasite orchid

Marvelous Eriophorum!

[Maggi Young]

Very much enjoying these photos, Thomas, thank you!
I think that photo 10, the parasitic plant may be Orobanche elatior.

[Olga Bondareva]

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=674.0;attach=24257 - Globularia cordifolia?

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=674.0;attach=24377 - the same or one of other Globularias. Sorry I didn't saw leaf.

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=674.0;attach=24223 and the nex - Gentiana verna?

[Thomas Huber]

Olga, what I've learnt from Tony during our meetin in Switzerland 2005 is,
that these kind of Gentians are present with 7 different species in the alps with
similar flowers, all together called the verna-group. So I'm not 100% sure
with your ID 

[Olga Bondareva]

Are you sure with Globularia? 

I look to Flora Helvetica with good images for each species. According to it your Gentiana is close to verna. But of course I could be wrong. Similar gentian species are difficult in identification. Wish I was botanist. 

[Maggi Young]

Thomas, to me also, your no. 3, looks more like Jasione laevis than a Globularia

[Thomas Huber]

I tend to Globularia
Maggi have a look at the 4th photo
of the 3rd batch, which is the same plant.
Let's wait what the other experts have to say.

The Gentian could be brachyphylla?

[Maggi Young]

Ah, this photo, Thomas?


I see the foliage here, yes, it does seem a Globularia! Sorry!

[Olga Bondareva]

Long stems at http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=674.0;attach=24377 confused me at first. But leaf at the background is of Globularia not Jasione.

[hadacekf]

Thomas,
Your beautiful pictures shows following plants!

5 -  = Eriophorum angustifolium  =  Eriophorum scheuchzeri
2007-07-18-91 + 94   =  Hutchinsia alpine
2 + 3 + 4  =  Campanula cochlearifolia
2007-07-18-49  =  Doronicum grandiflorum
8 + 9  =   Gentiana orbicularis
2007-07-18-56  =  Myosotis alpestris

[Thomas Huber]

Servus Franz and many thanks for your help,
especially clearing the Gentian riddle, about which
I had hot discussions with Olga.