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All the main zones and habitats of mountain flowers are represented, from lush valley meadows to glacial moraines and bare, windswept rock ridges, and everything in between; and with the glaring white limestone of the Rätikon range being especially productive, the botanist will have a fine time. Next to the Lindauer Hut a long-established and well-laid-out alpine garden is a good place to check out the names of plants you’re likely to see as you trek among these mountains.

This is not the place to give a comprehensive list, but the following notes will provide an idea of what to expect.

With the melting snowfields in late spring and early summer, the tiny tassel-flowered alpine snowbell, Soldanella alpina, is among the first to appear, followed by drifts of Crocus albiflorus and C. vernus (the white and purple crocus). The lovely white glacier crowfoot (Ranunculus glacialis) is amazingly adaptable, being found among both dry moraine banks and in damp soil beside streams, and even on high ridges and in the gravel of a broad snow-free pass in the Silvretta range.