Where Have All The Flowers Gone.....

Having published two blogs about Zermatt I thought I really had to put the wild flowers on here. So to complement my previous two blogs, here is one that shows some of the wild flowers that can be seen around Zermatt in late June. I could not feature Zermatt and not show the flowers. In late June as the snow recedes, the mountainsides come alive in a blaze of colour. I will add the photos for now and come back with some names very soon.

Dianthus or pink.

Rampion

Scabious

Nettle leaved bellflower

St Bernard's lily

Yellow rattle

Gentians above Schwarzee

Haller's pasque flower with a view of The Matterhorn

Trumpet gentians

Pennycress 

Edelweiss

Leopardsbane, but don't miss the two black vanilla orchids in the bottom left.

Gentians above Stellisee

More gentians above Stellisee

Alpine pasque flowers above Stellisee

Gentians and pasque flowers

Gentians

Pasque flowers above the Sunnegga station.

Gentians growing through moss campion.

Soldonella or alpine snowbell

Primula hirsutum

Gentians below the Matterhorn

Haller's pasque flower.

Alpine aquilegia

More soldonella

Have you worked this one out yet?

Mountain pansies.

Moss campion

Mountain pansy

Penny cress 

Gentians at Riffelsee

Pasque flower

Gentians

Sometimes it's the flowers that are spectacular, sometimes it's the location. In this area it's both! Trumpet gentians and the Matterhorn

Alpine Asters

Star of Bethlehem

Purple saxifrage