Alpine flowers
Small, tough flowers of high mountains: edelweiss, gentian, blue poppy.
Veitch's MasdevalliaMasdevallia veitchiana
A large orange Andean orchid with iridescent purple hairs
🇵🇪 Peru · Orchid
Iris afghanica
A rare mountain iris from Afghanistan with creamy yellow or white veined flowers
🇦🇫 Afghanistan and 2 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
Alpine toadflaxLinaria alpina
A small violet-flowered plant of rocky European mountain slopes
🇦🇹 Austria and 7 more · Wildflower
Saxifraga cotyledon
A white-flowered saxifrage from northern and mountain regions of Europe
🇳🇴 Norway and 1 more · Wildflower
Favratia zoysii
A rare alpine bellflower with a star-shaped mouth, found in the Alps
🇸🇮 Slovenia and 2 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Veitch's Masdevallia: Thomas Fuhrmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eightpetal mountain-avens: Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Alpine toadflax: Björn S., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Saxifraga cotyledon: Banangraut, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Favratia zoysii: Johan N, CC BY-SA 3.0, source