North facing side of the Veleta (3394 m) at sunset
15.7.2004
wet mat-grass and sedges meadows (Spanish: borreguiles) in an altitude of approximately 2500 m
15.7.2004
Laguna de Aguas Verdes, south facing side of the Veleta, 3050 m
16.7.2004
Peter Harbarth during the exhausting reclimb to the top of the pass at 3200 m (oxygen at these altitudes is quite reduced!)
16.7.2004
group of plants of P. nevadensis growing between sedges (in permanent water saturated parts of the borreguiles peat bogs are formed which are dominated by the sedge species Carex nigra ssp. intricata (brown sedge) and Carex nevadensis (Sierra Nevada sedge)
3050 m a.s.l., N 37°02', W 03°22'
16.7.2004
other colony at the Laguna de Aguas Verdes
16.7.2004
close-up of flowers of P. nevadensis
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small colony of plants with flower buds
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Viola crassiuscula ssp. nevadensis (endemic)
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Estrella de las nieves (Plantago nivalis) endemic
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Gentiana verna ssp. sierrae
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Chaenorrhinum glaerosum (endemic)
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