Losenheim 7.5.2018

A walk from Losenheim to the Fadensattel and back - zig zag with multiple breaks for pictures.

Starting from the uppermost car park.

The small of ramson (Allium ursinum) is in the air.

The hollow besides the small beck is full with ramsons.

Lucy is nearly covered by the "vegs"

First globeflowers (Trollius europaeus)

Greater Meadow rue (Thalictrum aquilegiifolium)

Ramson is covering large areas between the bushes.

I cannot identify this composite - hoping for help from the net.

To the left of the marked path, in the grass, first exemplars of the Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula)

Narzissus-flowerde anemone (Anemone narcissiflora)

Globeflowers (Trollius europaeus)

View to Schneeberg with the scree gully called Laning Ries.

Never ending ramsons ...

View back to Losenheim.

Zwiebeltragende Zahnwurz (Cardamine bulbifera)

Alpine Bird´s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus var. alpinus )

Woodland forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica)

Last Cowslips (Primula veris)

Even down here a first exemplar of  Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina), this one in red.

Losenheim is a bit deeper now ...

Wood cranesbill (Geranium sylvaticum)

Lots of wet places, where water is dripping out of the ground and where lots of  kingcups (Caltha palustris) have settled.

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

This old bath has seen better days, even at the time it was used as a dew pond.

Schneeberg with the prominent gully Laningries.

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) and Common bugle (Ajuga reptans).

Kingcups (Caltha palustris) are covering large areas.

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris) and the view back to Losenheim.

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) and Alpine Avens (Geum montanum)

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in yellow.

Spring gentian (Gentiana verna).

Schneeberg.

Alpine Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in gelb und in rot.

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in rot.

Alpine Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris)

Alpine Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris) in a pink variant.

Schneeberg. Mit den Holunder Knabenkräutern geht´s jetzt so richtig los.

Lucy genießt das Leben. Wenn ich Fotos mache, wartet sie brav auf mich, bis ich fertiig bin.

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina)  and Alpine Avens (Geum montanum)

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in both colours.

Elder-flowered orchid (Dactylorhiza sambucina) in both colours and growing in number ...

I proceed walking, climb under a barbed wire - and the beauty is gone. This area is pasture and manured, not a single orchid. A few Globeflowers (Trollius europaeus).

In a wet place once more Kingcups (Caltha palustris), together with large Bitter-cress (Cardamine amara).

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Another wet place is covered with large Bitter-cress (Cardamine amara).

Large Bitter-cress (Cardamine amara).

Spring gentian (Gentiana verna).

Spring gentian (Gentiana verna).

Near the Almreserlhaus, the grass is covered with cowslips.

Schneeberg panorama as seen from the Almreserlhaus. Click here or into the picture for a larger display.

View to the Klostertal, Kuhschneeberg to the left.

Near the forest here more Early purple orchids (Orchis mascula).

Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula).

Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula).

Inside the forest a wet gully with a beck, accompanied by lots of Kingcups (Caltha palustris) wachsen.

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

Kingcups (Caltha palustris)

I walk back, passing by the Edelweißhütte (sorry, no more time for a drink!). More Alpine Milkwort (Polygala vulgaris) on the ridge.

I decide to walk down the steep skiing piste and find lots of Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula) in between.

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens) in abundance.

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens)

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens) together with flowering ramson (Allium ursinum)!

Early purple orchid (Orchis mascula).

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens) with a visitor.

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens) together with flowering ramson (Allium ursinum)!

Pale-flowered orchid (Orchis pallens).

Ramson (Allium ursinum) in abundance.

Ramson (Allium ursinum) in abundance, with the view to the Laning Ries.

Ramson (Allium ursinum) in abundance, with the view to the Laning Ries.

At the valley floor, shortly before Losenheim.

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