Our summer travels took us into amazing floral terrain of the Swiss Alps. Each step was a photo opportunity causing for a slow but richly rewarding hike. I have the names of some but would love for readers to add their knowledge about names and medicinal values.
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- Colt’s Foot Tussilago farfara
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- Alpine Avens Seed heads
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- Alpine Wood Cranesbill geranium sylvaticum
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- Alpine Birdsfoot Tefoil – Lotus Alpinus
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- Thistle
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- Spring Gentian (Gentiana Verna)
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- Rosehips
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- Bearded Bellflower Campanula Barbata
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- Alpine Harebell Campanula Rotundiflora
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- Golden hawks beard – Crepis aurea
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- Dandelion
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- Glacier mouse-ear chickweed Cerastium uniflorum
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- Lichen
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- Alpine Aster
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- Mountain Houseleek Sempervivum montanum
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- Riund Headed Rampion – Phyteuma orbiculara
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- Globe flower – Trollius europaeus
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- Violet
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- Trumpet Gentian Gentiana Acaulis
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suzannesmom
/ August 28, 2013Beautiful. A good place to load pictures and get an identification is http://www.mistersmartyplants.com. They also like help identifying flowers posted by others.
typewriter poetry
/ September 1, 2013Thanks for posting this website! I’ve been looking for a resource like this. Bookmarked for future research 🙂
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013Me too! Thanks so much. The world needs more plant resources.
Suzi Banks Baum
/ August 28, 2013I was in the Alps too. And the Gentian plant kept appearing everywhere I looked. Lovely gallery and happy you are home! xo S
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013Glad you had a good trip Suzi!
nancy at good food matters
/ August 28, 2013Hi Tammy, I regret that I know so little about wildflowers and their different healing properties. However, I enjoyed a little detour from my daily travail to wander through your pretty gallery of Alpine flora. What an amazing hike that was!
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013Thanks Nancy – glad to provide your daily reprieve! I would like to learn more about foraging.
Author Jane Ward
/ August 28, 2013These brightened what was an otherwise rough day. You are the best, Tammy.
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013It’s a lovely part of the world Jane. Love it.
Kathy McNamara
/ August 28, 2013Love the Gentian! That was my favorite of your pictures!
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013It’s a magic color, isn’t it Kathy?
nrhatch
/ August 28, 2013Gorgeous flowers. Love that you took them home with you on your camera.
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013And that I can keep them!
montucky
/ August 28, 2013Beautiful and colorful array of flowers!
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013I was hoping you’d be a resource for the ones I couldn’t identify.
hotlyspiced
/ August 29, 2013What an incredible selection of flowers. Just beautiful and so many varieties xx
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013Yes, it’s a lovely part of the world and beautiful flowers in every direction you turn.
Kath
/ August 29, 2013❤ ❤ ❤
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013🙂
Sophie33
/ August 29, 2013Many lovely flowers! Thanks for showing us them! 😃
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013You are welcome Sophie.
Tandy | Lavender and Lime
/ August 29, 2013Wow, they are all amazing!
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013I think so too Tandy. I was really amazed by the variety and that not much was red.
nats1mom
/ August 31, 2013My favorite is the Spring Gentian; although ALL were beautifully captured! Lovely!
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013It’s got a magical quality, doesn’t it? You know, I thought some of the photos were really nice and then I went online and looked at some professional photos in an attempt to identify the ones that I didn’t know. Boy, do I have much to learn about taking pictures!
Lucy
/ August 31, 2013This is just beautiful. Thank you for posting.
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013You’re very welcome!
typewriter poetry
/ September 1, 2013Amazing. Wish I had a way to take my camera with me on adventures, and to make sure it doesn’t break or get stolen!
On my book wishlist is a book of North American plants and their medicinal properties. Maybe one day I’ll get to the point where I can spot out a flower and tell you what healing properties its leaves have, but until then, I’ll just end with “my, what pretty flowers there are in the world” 🙂
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013Yes, there are so many pretty ones. I love them and love to know their names. My next hope is to learn to forage.
kateshrewsday
/ September 1, 2013Bewitching little jewels, Tammy! I have seen some at the garden centres but these are just so delicate, perched in the wild. thanks so much for posting them.
Tammy
/ September 1, 2013They are truly jewels Kate. Loved hiking amongst them.
Island Traveler
/ September 2, 2013Beautiful, exciting, colorful blooms. I will take my time too so I can capture these amazing Summer flowers.
Tammy
/ September 4, 2013As kate said above, they are bewitching little jewels.
Estrella Azul
/ September 2, 2013Such beautiful photos, love your alpine flora collection here! ❤
Tammy
/ September 4, 2013Wish you had been with me to point out the names of them!
Estrella Azul
/ September 5, 2013Me, too, Tammy! But I will come visit the US one day, and will swing by your place for sure 🙂
isathreadsoflife
/ September 8, 2013Such a joy to find our Alpine flowers on your blog, Tammy. And to know you loved them as much as I do. I tried to comment on some of them but could do better with my books about flowers that stayed up in the chalet, precisely !
Tammy
/ September 10, 2013oh yes, I wish I had one of those books now. I’ve been surprised at how little I’ve been able to find online.
Kathy
/ September 8, 2013How wonderful that you were able to visit the Alps this summer, Tammy! And equally amazing that you were able to share all these lovely photos of Alpine wildflowers. So beautiful!
Tammy
/ September 10, 2013Loved the flowers and kate’s comment above “bewitching little jewels”
Inger Wilkerson
/ September 8, 2013What a great collection of flower photos! Just makes you smile!
Tammy
/ September 10, 2013They do, don’t they Inger?
Sartenada
/ September 17, 2013I love this post. What a lovely set of beautiful flower photos.