FERNS and ALLIES from OPEN AREAS
(meadows, screes, lapiaz)


Even if forests are everywhere below 1500 m, many valleys offer open sunny places where light-demanding species can develop. Beyond 1800 m, even the forest of mugo pines clears up and leaves gradually place to the alpine meadow strewn with slopes of screes, with vast surfaces of lapiaz, refuge for a coloured flora. Some ferns can find there the chilliness and humidity which are necessary for their development.

 



Huperzia selago

Fir Clubmoss

 

 

 

 

 

Equisetum palustre

Marsh Horsetail

         
Asplenium
ruta-muraria
 subsp.ruta-muraria

Wall Rue

Cystopteris montana

Mountain Bladder-fern

Dryopteris
villarii

Dryopteris rigide

Gymnocarpium dryopteris

Woodland
Oak-fern

Gymnocarpium robertianum

Limestone
Oak-fern

Polystichum lonchitis

Holly Fern

 

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