Alpine flowers
Small, tough flowers of high mountains: edelweiss, gentian, blue poppy.
Spring Pasque FlowerPulsatilla vernalis
A small, early-blooming wildflower of Europe's mountain regions
🇳🇴 Norway and 2 more · Wildflower
Iris afghanica
A rare mountain iris from Afghanistan with creamy yellow or white veined flowers
🇦🇫 Afghanistan and 2 more · Wildflower
Primula capitata
A Himalayan primrose with globe-shaped clusters of purple flowers
🇧🇹 Bhutan and 1 more · Wildflower
Eightpetal mountain-avensDryas octopetala
A low evergreen with creamy white eight-petalled flowers of Arctic and alpine regions
🇮🇸 Iceland and 2 more · Wildflower
Gentiana clusii
A blue gentian of European limestone mountains
Gentiana clusii · Wildflower
Alpine toadflaxLinaria alpina
A small violet-flowered plant of rocky European mountain slopes
🇦🇹 Austria and 7 more · Wildflower
Entireleaf mountain-avensDryas integrifolia
A mat-forming Arctic shrub with white to yellow flowers
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 more · Wildflower
Saxifraga cotyledon
A white-flowered saxifrage from northern and mountain regions of Europe
🇳🇴 Norway and 1 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Spring Pasque Flower: DimiTalen, CC0, source
- Primula capitata: Ghislain118 http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Eightpetal mountain-avens: Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Gentiana clusii: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alpine toadflax: Björn S., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Entireleaf mountain-avens: Ansgar Walk, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Saxifraga cotyledon: Banangraut, CC BY-SA 3.0, source