| Valle d'Aosta, Italy |
| Monte Bianco |
| 2 August 2018 |
| Today we visited the Mont Blanc, in the far west of the Valle d'Aosta. From the most western town of the valley, Entrève, the 'skyway' cable brings one in no-time to 3500 m altitude. But while the landscape at this height is impressive, for finding plants etc. this is not such a promising place. Luckily, there is a stop halfway at ca. 2200 m, where a rich alpine vegetation is easily reached. I saw one of the truly alpine butterflies, Erebia pluto, but regrettably they didn't cooperate when it came to photographing them. |
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| Hieracium pilosella | ||
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Gymnadenia rubra |
Coenonympha darwiniana |
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| Stachys pradica | ||
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| Pedicularis tuberosa | ||
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| Mylabris flexuosa | ||
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| Anechura bipunctata | ||
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| Bupleurum stellatum | ||
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| Bupleurum ranunculoides | ||
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| Antennaria dioica | |||
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| Sempervivum arachnoideum | ||
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| Hieracium intybaceum | ||
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Campanula barbata |
Botrychium lunaria |
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| Rhinanthus glacialis | Zygaena spec. | |
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| Saxifraga aspera | ||
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| Euphydryas cynthia | ||
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| Sempervivum montanum | ||
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