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Some of the wildflowers characteristic of the Swiss Jura include:

 Yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea ), abundant in the Jura region and farmed and distilled in the Vallée de Joux to make a botanical liqueur drunk as a digestif

 White hellebore (Veratum album ), a toxic plant that is a member of the lily family

 Eyebright (Euphrasia officinalis ), a low-growing parasitic plant with white flowers, found in alpine pastures and grasslands

 Monk’s-hood (Aconitum variegatum ), also known as wolf’s bane, a highly toxic plant with blue-violet flowers, found in mountainous terrain and rockier parts of the Jura

 Field gentian (Gentianella campestris ), found in most alpine meadows, pastures and forest clearings throughout the Jura and identifiable by its four large blue-violet petals with a central corolla

 Edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum ), generally found high, on rocky outcrops or inaccessible areas

 Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia ), a hardy and tolerant singular blue-violet nodding flower that is a member of the campanula ‘bell’ family