| Valle d'Aosta, Italy |
| Lillaz |
| 4 August 2018 |
| With just four days left, we had to make up our mind where to go to. While we already visited various locations close to the borders of Switzerland and France, the sourthern valleys were still unexplored. So this would be the focus for the remaining days of our stay, starting with the Cogne valley. We drove up all the way to Lillaz, from which various tracks lead into the mountains. The village lies at an altitude of ca 1650 m - still well within the forest zone and not truly alpine. Yet against the odds I found edelweiss, the iconic flower of the alpine realm. |
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| Leontopodium alpinum | |
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Pyrgus spec. |
Polyommatus damon |
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| Polyommatus damon feeding at Sempervivum tectorum | ||
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| Sedum dasyphyllum | ||
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| Larix decidua | Campanula glomerata | ||
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| Cirsium acaule | Parnassius apollo | |
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| Colchicum alpinum | |
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| Perla grandis | ||
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| Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca | |
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| Carlina acaulis | |
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| Potentilla erecta | Parnassia palustris | |
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Artemisia absinthium |
Vincetoxicum hirundinaria |
Sedum album |
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| Romjularia lurida | |
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| Lytta vesicatoria | ||
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| Erebia montana | Lasiommata maera | Lycaena virgaureae |
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| Aricia nicias | |
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| Peltigera spec. | |
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| Ecoglite with garnets | |
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| Amphibolite | |
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| Metamorphic rock | ||
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