Valle d'Aosta, Italy

Colle di Gran San Bernardo

30 July 2018

After having spent quite some time at the first location, we moved up to the summit of the pass. As was to be expected, this turned out to be rather touristically oriented. For once this was rather providential, as when we wanted to eat our home-prepared lunch, we noticedt that no one had taken the lunch-bag to the car... So we bought some food and when my company visited various touristic stalls, I went to look for more plants. While the first location was a depression in the mountains with little streams, resulting is a damp to moist vegetation. At the top of the pass no depressions, no little streams, hence the vegetation overall is much drier.

Phyteuma hemisphaericum with galls of Dasineura phyteumatis

Pedicularis spec.		Sedum alpestre

Gnaphalium supinum	Flavocetraria nivalis & Thamnolia vermicularis

Leucanthemopsis alpina

Veronica alpina

Arenaria biflora

Achillea erba-rotta moschata

Sempervivum arachnoideum		Agriades glandon

Geum montanum

Viola calcarata		Homogyne alpina

Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia

Plantago alpina		Gentianella campestris