Sesto Hiking Flower Photos

In this post we show flowers seen during late June hikes around Sesto/Sexten. See the post One Week of Hiking in Sesto (Sexten), South Tyrol - Five Hikes.

Composite of 36 flower photos from hikes near Sesto.

Late June is a good time for flowers in South Tyrol, though what you see depends heavily on elevation, exposure, and how recently winter has given up. As usual, we did not go off trail to photograph plants. Many flowers are easily visible from the path, and meadows do not need hikers wandering through them just because someone has suddenly become interested in botany.

We are including just 36 that we were able to spot. Think of this as the likely candidates you'll come across. We used Checklist Flora per Regione for Trentino Alto-Adige to help guide our identifications.

[Family] Genus species

[Asteraceae] Cicerbita alpina
[Asteraceae] Cirsium erisithales
[Asteraceae] Cirsium spinosissimum
[Asteraceae] Crepis aurea
[Brassicaceae] Biscutella laevigata
[Campanulaceae] Campanula barbata
[Campanulaceae] Phyteuma orbiculare
[Campanulaceae] Phyteuma ovatum
[Caryophyllaceae] Minuarti recurva
[Caryophyllaceae] Silene dioicia
[Ericaceae] Rhododendron hirsutum
[Ericaceae] Rhodothamnus chamaecistus
[Fabaceae] Anthyllis vulneraria
[Fabaceae] Onobrychis viciifolia
[Fabaceae] Trifolium alpinum
[Gentianaceae] Gentiana acaulis
[Gentianaceae] Gentiana sp.
[Lamiaceae] Lamium album
[Lamiaceae] Thymus sp.
[Lentibulariaceae] Pinguicula alpina
[Liliaceae] Lilium martagon
[Orchidaceae] Gymnadenia sp.
[Orobanchaceae] Bartsia alpina
[Orobanchaceae] Pedicularis verticillata
[Papaveraceae] Papaver alpinum
[Plantaginaceae] Linaria alpina
[Ranunculaceae] Aconitum lycoctonum
[Ranunculaceae] Aquilegia atrata
[Ranunculaceae] Clematis alpina (now Atragene alpina)
[Ranunculaceae] Ranunculus glacialis
[Ranunculaceae] Trollius europaeus
[Rosaceae] Dryas octapetala
[Rosaceae] Geum reptans
[Rosaceae] Rosa sp.
[Saxifragaceae] Saxifraga exarata
[Saxifragaceae] Saxifraga sp.