Les Arcs: flowers

Here's a small selection of the wonderful flowers we found. Sorry if I slowed everyone by taking photos, but I couldn't ignore them all. It's taken ages to identify them, not convinced they're all right.

Parnassia palustris, marsh grass of Parnassus, so beautiful you really have to get on your knees in the bogs to see it properly, or is that just me? It's named for Orpheus' mountain home.

Linaria alpina, Alpine toadflax looks unreal in its colour mix, but no photoshop was used in the making of this post.

a ranunculus, not sure which one.

  

Edelweiss, Leontopodium alpinum, more small lion's paw than white, clean or bright! 

Brilliant colour combination, Bavarian-Gentian Gentiana bavarica, with a buttercup.

Round Headed Orchid, Traunsteinera globosa, the first of several new-to-me ones. The 'hairy' appearance is striking, from a distance mimics scabeous.

No idea, didn't fit any of the photos or descriptions in my books. any ideas anyone?

Common Twayblade, Neottia ovata, is very widespread but small, camouflaged and shy.

Burnt Orchid, another new one, Neotinea ustulata. It's quite similar to the endangered Lady orchid, but lip narrower and smooth.

Epipactis atrorubens, the Dark Red Helleborine, yet another new-to-me.

Not-very-Common not-always-Spotted, an old favourite,Dactylorrhyza fuchsii.

Nigritella nigra, Black Vanilla and Nigritella rubra  Rosy Vanilla Orchids (another new one). Although variably dark the Little-Black black isn't really, not very vanilla-ish either (although the books say it has a strong vanilla scent) ...

unlike the Fragrant orchid, Gymnadea conopsea, with a strong-when-warm scent of sweetness, vanilla, spice and generic flowers: wonderful!

Frog orchid, Coeloglossum viride, I suspect it's not as rare as its reputation, just small and camouflaged. This one was lurking under a shrubby willow, so found by chance.

Strange hairy mushroom with a smiley ace!