Flora & Fauna Kategorien: High alpine habitat FLORA & Fauna Taxonomy

Fairy’s thimble bellflowers are light blue. The basal leaves are rounded and toothed. Fairy’s thimble is a spreading plant which grows on limestone and dolomite rocks and screes, embedding itself …

A natural wonder.
At the Fuorcla Val dal Botsch the Rhaetian poppy grows in the midst of steep screes at 2650m altitude. Limestone debris is an extremely hostile environment, where only …

A dainty, but very resistant plant.Alpine toadflax belongs to the Figwort family. This robust plant grows on limestone or dolomite screes up to 3000m altitude. In the National Park you …

A relic from the Ice Age
In Switzerland, the pygmy buttercup is only found in the snowy valleys of the Macun plateau. Its little yellow flowers open in July or August.

Glacier crowfoot is a plant of arctic origin and grows exclusively on acid soils, such as on the Macun plateau.
It favours altitudes above 2300m. The pink tint on the petals …

It can be advantageous to be small. Moss campion grows in compact, moss-like cushions on open grassland and scree, mainly on limestone and dolomite. The little pink flowers are carried …

A little gem that grows at very high altitudes but is quite scarce.
Swiss androsace anchors itself in rock crevices by means of a long taproot that enables it to draw …