Species list for Habitat «Barren glacier forefield, 2600m»
Region: Valais Alps
Height: 2600m ASL
Description: Barren glacier forefield with various watercourses. Ice sheet until about 1950. Calcareous rocks predominate.
In this habitat, we have so far been able to prove the following creatures and plants, among others:
Fauna
Insects (Insecta)
Bees (Apoidea)
- Bombus wurflenii
- Chelostoma rapunculi
- Bombus sichelii
Flies (Brachycera)
- Tachina magnicornis
- Eristalis tenax
Wasps (Vespidae)
- Anoplius infuscatus
- Gelis agilis
- Pimpla rufipes
Spiders (Araneae)
- Attulus longipes
Flora
Flowers
- Pritzelago alpina
- Arabis caerulea
- Erigeron uniflorus
- Saxifraga oppositifolia
- Doronicum grandiflorum
- Geum reptans
- Saxifraga androsacea
- Gentiana orbicularis
- Saxifraga biflora
- Achillea nana
- Anthyllis vulneraria ssp. alpestris
- Artemisia umbelliformis
- Campanula cenisia
- Hieracium piliferum
- Leucanthemopsis alpina
- Myosotis alpestris
- Oxyria digyna
- Saxifraga aizoides, FPR
- Sedum atratum
- Silene acaulis
- Veronica alpina
Ferns
- Polystichum lonchitis
Shrubs
- Salix foetida
Number of species: 32