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Alpine Botanists - what are these flowers ?
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They give off a real aroma that comes and goes in swathes of perfume as you walk through them.

Previous years been really hard to identify what flower it is that is giving the scent, but after all the recent wet weather and now really hot sunshine they are out in abundance.

It's the purple flowers which almost resemble honey suckle.


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Hi Weathercam, I just happened to have a Fleurs des Alpes guide close to hand and it looks like Trèfle des Alpes (trifolium alpinum).
Info says its usually seen in the Central & Southern French Alpine meadows, between 1700 & 2700m altitude (fits your location I believe),
flowers June to August.
Looks like a cracking day from your pics. I'm well-jeal Razz
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French Honeysuckle ?

Fabaceae.

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Fabaceae_flower.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae&h=194&w=259&tbnid=CLSc1FPMMn300M:&zoom=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=200&usg=__E4enxmzMCDTl2JOYaa2KmNS28LI=&docid=dMmpD9jBak9uSM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=nkPJU8-RB_Sw7AaPqYCwAQ&ved=0CHQQ_B0wCg
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Snow Beard, well done that's it !

Have been further Googling and many a French site refers to the scent / taste as Licorice. I've tried Googling Liquorice but it seems even any English description has "licorice"

"Mountain licorice (Bot) a kind of clover (Trifolium alpinum), found in the Alps. It has large purplish flowers and a sweetish perennial rootstock"

Here's the other mut



Carpets of flowers were stunning, and the altitude "between 1700 & 2700" was spot on !

And for Serre Chevalier groupies this was on the Vallons.
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Weathercam,

Trifolium is clover, wouldn't you recognize that?
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musher, the leaves aren't quite the same as our British variety. this botanical drawing shows them more clearly
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musher, not very good with flowers, that's why it's taken me night on a couple of years to work this out, or should I say ask the question of others Puzzled

Talk tonight was about going up looking for Genepi as should be a lot around as so many flowers out at the moment.

And looking at Google images even I should be able to recognise that!!
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Glad to be of help Weathercam
Best wishes for a successful Genepi hunt - tell the truth though, you really mean you're all going out for a few shots of Génépi don't you Toofy Grin
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Weathercam, you will need to go high, and follow a local, they guard their génepi crop closely.
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Weathercam,

You'll find a good one in the coop in Sauze wink
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