Friday 6 August 2021

Pyrenean Thistle

Pyrenean Thistle Carduus carlinoides, Haute-Pyrenees, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.

 

This silvery-pink thistle is abundant above about 1000 metres in the Pyrénées. It turns out to be the endemic Pyrenean Thistle Carduus carlinoides (Fr. Chardon fausse-carline).

Pyrenean Thistle Carduus carlinoides, Haute-Pyrenees, France. Photo by Loire Valley Time Travel.
With a visiting Bilberry Bumble Bee Bombus monticola (Fr. Bourdon montagnard).

 

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