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The Alps, A Natural Companion | Flowers 16. Flower Identification Guide

209. Common Houseleek 210. Crowberry 213. Dwarf Snowbell 214. Adenostyles

Sempervivum tectorum Stonecrop family (Crassulaceae) Empetrum nigrum Heath family (Ericaceae) Soldanella pusilla Primrose family (Primulaceae) Adenostyles alliariae Daisy family (Asteraceae)
Plant height: 10-35cm Flower size: 10-20mm
Altitude zones: sub montane - alpine (800-2800m) Plant height: 10-20cm Flower size: 1.5-3mm Plant height: 3-10cm Flower size: 8-12mm Plant height: 50-150cm Flower size: 6-8mm
Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Altitude zones: sub alpine - alpine (1700-2600m) Altitude zones: sub alpine - alpine (1800-2800m) Altitude zones: montane - sub alpine (1000-2500m)
Description: A succulent plant with large, flattened rosettes. Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D
Rosette leaves blue-green tinged red, with fine points and hairy Description: A dwarf evergreen, mat-forming shrub. Leaves Description: Short hairless plant with deep green, rounded Description: A tall, hairy plant with large heart-shaped leaves.
margins. Flowers dull pink or purple in large clusters. narrow-oblong, shiny green, margins rolled under forming a leaves, forming small mats. Stems one-flowered. Flowers pale Leaves toothed with cobweb-like hairs beneath. Upper leaves
Habitat: Dry, nutrient-poor acidic soils, rocky places white stripe. Flowers tiny, pale pink, at base of leaves. Male and violet, funnel-shaped with shallow-fringe, nodding. smaller, clasping the stem. Flowers red - purple in dense,
Distribution: Throughout female flowers on separate plants. Fruit a round black berry. Habitat: Wet, nutrient-poor soils,acid rocks and snow patches branched clusters. Each flowerhead with 3-6 flowers.
Abundance: Common Habitat: Acidic nutrient-poor soils, alpine meadows, open woods Habitat: Woodland and wet meadows, base-rich soils
Distribution: Eastern Alps
Distribution: Throughout Abundance: Scattered Distribution: Throughout
Abundance: Common Abundance: Common

211. Heather 212. Alpine Snowbell 215. Alpine Adenostyles 216. Woolly Adenostyles

Calluna vulgaris Heath family (Ericaceae) Soldanella alpina Primrose family (Primulaceae) Adenostyles alpina Daisy family (Asteraceae) Adenostyles leucophylla Daisy family (Asteraceae)
Plant height: 10-40cm Flower size: 6-8mm
Plant height: 10-50cm Flower size: 3-5mm Plant height: 5-15cm Flower size: 10-15mm Plant height: 30-80cm Flower size: 6-8mm Altitude zones: Sub alpine - alpine (2000-3000m)
Altitude zones: montane - alpine (1000-2700m) Altitude zones: montane - alpine (1100-2700m) Altitude zones: montane - alpine (1000-2600m) Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D
Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Flowering: J F M A M J J A S O N D Description: A medium sized plant with white-woolly leaves.
Description: A dwarf, hairy shrub. Leaves evergreen, tiny, Description: Hairless, mat-forming plant often seen poking Description: Leaves kidney-shaped, regularly toothed, almost Stems softly hairy, leaves kidney-shaped. Flowerheads small,
opposite and scale-like. Flowers pinkish-lilac in slender, one- out through melting snow. Leaves deep green, heart-shaped. hairless beneath. Flowerheads reddish-purple mostly of 2-3 reddish-purple with 12-24 flowers.
sided, leafy spikes. Flowers red-violet, deeply fringed, nodding bells in clusters flowers forming dense, branched clusters. Habitat: Acidic nutrient-poor soils, stony alpine meadows, scree
Habitat: Dry, nutrient-poor soils, open woods, rocky places of 2-4. Habitat: Damp calcareous soils, wet meadows and woods Distribution: Western Alps
Habitat: Damp, calcareous meadows, rocky places Abundance: Scattered
Distribution: Throughout Distribution: Throughout
Abundance: Common Distribution: Throughout Abundance: Scattered
Abundance: Common

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