Natural History Photographs


In 1980, I travelled abroad for the first time in my life, one of the destinations being Jaca. If you're in Jace and you look south you cannot miss the impressive Peña de Oroel, which dominates the landscape far far around. So visiting the Peña again was quite a nostalgic expericnce, I have to admit. And while normally a 30 year time span between visits makes the revisit a disappointment, because nothing is as you remember it, here this was not the case. The Peña is still the Peña, and the mountain still dominates the landscape as impressively as it did then. Looking for plants at its feet was almost a religious experience....
Anacamptis pyramidalis
Authority:(L.) Rich.
Synonyms:Orchis pyramidalis Linnaeus, 1753
Nederlands:Hondskruid
English:Pyramidal Orchid
Deutsch:Spitzorchis
Norsk:Salepsrot
Svenska:Klotyxne, salepsrot
Français:Orchis pyramidal
Italiano:orchide, orchidea pyramidale, orchide piramidale
Español:orquídea piramidal, orquídea piramidale
Anthericum liliago
Authority:Linnaeus, 1753
Nederlands:Grote graslelie
English:St Bernard's lily
Deutsch:Traubige Graslilie, Astlose Graslilie, großblumige Berglilie, große Graslilie,
Traubengraslilie
Svenska:Stor Sandlilja
Français:Anthéric à fleurs de lis, bâton de Saint Joseph, lis de Saint-Bernard,
phalangère à fleur de lis
Italiano:lilioasfodelo maggiore
Español:cebollas almorraneas, falangera, falangio hierba, falangites, flor de lis,
hierba de la araña, palomino
Laserpitium gallicum
Authority:Linnaeus, 1753
English:French laserwort
Deutsch:französisches Laserkraut
Français:laser de France, laser odorant
Italiano:laserpizio di Francia, laserpizio odoroso
Español:cominos marranos
Knautia subscaposa
Authority:Boiss. & Reut. 1852
Español:escabiosa mayor de los sembrados, follasquera, hierba para la sarna