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This thistle was some 50cm tall, no spines on stems nor leaves. Inflorescences ...
An alpine perennial with several flowers ...
A small creeping perennial. Plant covered by blandulose haits. Flowers whitish, ...
Perennial herbaceous non-spiny plant. Leaves entire, pointed. Flwering head ...
A perennial plant with entire, pointed, non-spiny leaves and a beautiful pink ...
It has very spiny leaves in a rosette and a big flower in the middle.
A creeping perennial. Leaves very small, hence th species name. Flower very ...
A grayish perennial. Leaves crenate. Flowers in spike-like erect ...
Pieris napi or Pieris bryoniae? Feeding on geranium sp.
A magnificent lily found all over Alps, easily recognized by those gorgeous ...
A small perennial herbaceous plant belonging to pea family (Fabaceae). Plants ...
Small plant, growing some 10 to 12 cm high. Leaves are opposites, elongated. ...
This sage, a member of Lamiaceae family, is an herbaceous perennial some 1,20m ...
Green hellebore is a perennial flowering plant in the buttercup family, ...
This plant in the Campanulaceae family has purple-blue flowers. The remarkable ...
This alpine marmot was unusually ...
Horses on Mount Mattana above the Italian Riviera
Empis is a genus of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. Notice the sharp ...
Beechnut growing on top of Mount Mattana.
A flowering plant from plantain family (Plantaginaceae). A flowering stalk ...
The most common of all Ladybirds. Bright red, less than 1 cm in length bearing ...
A magnificent autumn bulb. flowers r usually whitish in the centre. Leaves ...
Also known as Mountain violet, this species is a herbaceous flowering perennial ...
base into 5-7 narrow petals. It grows in grassy
Dense spikes of soft pink flowers rise from June to early autumn above ...
This member of Campanulaceae family, also known as 'Pride of Sussex' is ...
Wild rose or dog-rose is deciduous and thorny shrub, 1 to 5m tall when growing ...
While alpine marmots are generally very ...
This Longhorn beetle (longhorn beetle family, or Ceramycidae) is approx 2,5 cm ...
A summer flowering broadleaved herbaceous plant from family Plantaginaceae. ...
Short and robust herbaceous plant, some 15 cm in height; with dark pink or ...
Also known as Common or Brown frog. About 10 cm long, with short legs and ...
were literally everywhere in alpine
Thlaspi caerulescens is a low biennial or perennial plant that has small basal ...
from the German "Senne" (alpine
Sharp beige flower with dark "petals", pointed leaves, short stem
The length of the forewings is 14 - 16 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June ...
The wings of this butterfly species are dark blue with a dark brown fringe on ...
Despite the name, adults are overall a brighter yellow than the Yellow-bellied ...
3 to 4 cm long caterpillar, brightly colored in stripes of different colors: ...
Tiny flowering perennial plant with a really tiny (1 cm in diameter max) ...
Shy and small deer, some 80 cm in shoulder height, and earthly-brown with ...