• COURCHEVEL GOLF CLUB • THE FLORA OF THE COURSE •
• COURCHEVEL GOLF CLUB • THE FLORA OF THE COURSE •
• THE CORNFLOWER •
Family Asteraceae
This plant is easily recognizable, with its deep indigo blue color and hairy stalk.
• THE ALPINE CLEMATIS •
Ranunculaceae family
Clematis is a vine that attaches to the surrounding trees and shrubs. This rather rare flower has four light blue tepals.
• THE GOLDEN BUTTON •
Ranunculaceae family
It is a perennial plant with simple, cup-shaped flowers formed by five tight, shiny sepals.
• THE CAMPANULA •
Family Campanulaceae
Its name comes from the Latin Camapana “small bell”, of light blue color.
• THE MILK THISTLE •
Family Asteraceae
It is a thorny plant whose flowers are united in inflorescences forming dense and tight heads.
• THE CREPIDE •
Family Asteraceae
From 5 to 20 cm high, it likes in the pastures. This trepide of altitude is easily recognized by the orange color of its capitula.
• THE GREAT GENTIAN •
Gentian family
Large, robust and perennial grass, it can live 50 years and takes 10 years to bloom the first time. Its strong root, which contains bitter glucosides, is used to make very famous aperitif drinks. Not to be confused with the white veratre, which is very toxic.
• THE GREAT MARGARITA •
Family Asteraceae
This field flower has 20 to 30 petals around its yellow center. It is used to entertain children in the game of stripping.
• THE COTTON GRASS •
Cyperaceae family
Also called “down rush”, this plant loves wetlands. In some areas their silks have been used as cotton.
• THE FIREWEED •
Onagraceae family
Commonly called Laurier de Saint Antoine, the plant can grow up to 2m tall. The Spike-primrose is a pioneer species present in dense colonies in all open areas. It is used in the composition of multifloral mountain honeys
• THE BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL •
Family Fabaceae
It is a perennial herbaceous, yellow in colour. It is melliferous. Its small leaves feed the caterpillars of 12 species of butterflies.
• THE BISCUTELLE •
Brassicaceae family
This perennial grows in rocky places. Its fruit evokes a pair of glasses.
• THE MYOSOTIS •
Borginacea family
It’s also called “don’t forget me”. Around 100 species are found in mountainous regions around the world.
• ORCHIS INCARNAT •
Family Orchidaceae
This species is in very strong decline, following decreases in wetlands.
• THE OROBRANCHE •
Family of Orobanchaceae
This chlorophyll-free plant is primarily recognizable by its scaly, upright, straw-yellow stem.
• THE POPPY •
Papaveraceae family
Poppies have large solitary flowers, often very colorful, with four satiny petals and slightly wrinkled.
• THE DANDELION •
Family Asteraceae
After flowering, just blow on the double-crested achenes to see them fly away and make a wish.
• THE BISTORTE KNOTWEED •
Polygonaceae family
It’s an edible plant. Its simple stem ends with pink flowers in single spike.
• THE SWOLLEN SILENE •
Family Caryophyllaceae
One easily finds this flower, which children use as a firecracker.
• THE SERPOLET THYME •
Lamiaceae family
It is a low plant that blooms from June to September. In aroma or infusion, it has aromatic characteristics close to thyme.
• THE COLOMBAR SCABIER •
Family of Dipsacaceae
The columbar scabier is a bushy plant that produces beautiful purple flowers. It is used today as an ornamental plant, requiring little maintenance.
• CREEPING BUG •
Labiatae family
The Creeping Bugle is a perennial plant with evergreen foliage, growing in cool places. The blue-purple flowers, rich in nectar, appear between May and July.
• THE GREAT BERCE •
Apiaceae family
Also called wolf’s paw, it is a plant that stands out easily by its umbels of beautiful white or sometimes pink flowers.
• THE MUSK MALLOW •
Malvaceae family
These flowers remind of a mill by their shape, last only one day, but succeed each other throughout the summer.
• THE RHODODENDRON •
Family of the Ericaceae
This flower is emblematic of mountainous regions. It is the national flower of Nepal, where it appears on the coat of arms of the country as a garland.
• THE RUMEX OR THE WILD SORREL •
Polygonaceae family
This perennial herb blooms from June to September. Rubbing a rumex leaf on skin bitten by nettles or insects is known to suppress itching.
• THE VÉRONIQUE PETIT CHÊNE •
Family Scrophulariaceae
The small oak veronica is a blue flowering plant of ephemeral beauty. Indeed, it opens in the morning on a bright blue, it pinks at dusk and fades the next evening.
• THE LARGE BUOY •
Apiaceae family
Quite common in the countryside where it occupies meadows and clearings, the large bush is a plant that enjoys a very cut dark foliage resembling that of ferns, and white or pale pink flowers in umbels.
• THE ORANGE HAWK •
Family Asteraceae
The orange hawk is a plant whose growth is particularly fast and the flowering is of a blazing orange appreciated by these admirers as pollinating insects that will not fail to delight in its nectar.
• THE MIDDLE PLANTAIN •
Family of Plantaginaceae
The medium plantain grows wild in fields and meadows, its young shoots are edible and appreciated cooked as raw.
• THE RED COMPANION •
Family Caryophyllaceae
The leaves are slightly hairy, the stems hairy and ramified and the pink or red flowers with white base have five petals with two lobes.
• LUPULIN ALFALFA •
Family Fabaceae
Lupulin or minette alfalfa is a plant that is sometimes grown as a green fertilizer or forage. It can be confused with yellow clover.
• THE VULNERABLE ANTHYLLIDE •
Fabaceae family
The vulnerary anthyllide is a plant characterized by the woolly appearance of its flower clusters.
• THE OFFICINAL VALERIAN •
Caprifiolaceae Family
Valerian is a perennial herbaceous plant. It is also known under the vernacular names of Herbe-au(x)-chat(s), Herbe de Saint-Georges, or Herbe à la meurtrie.
• THE WOOD GERANIUM •
Family of Geraiaceae
As under the effect of a spring, its seeds can be propelled several tens of centimeters from the plant.
• THE ALPINE ROSE •
Famille des Rosaceae
This rose is distinguished by its hanging fruits, the bright color of its flowers and its branches usually without thorn. From its Latin name, Rosa pendulina, Pendulina means “pendant”, recalling the falling port of the fruits of this flowering plant.
• THE MEADOW SALSIFY •
Asteraceae family
It is sometimes called “goat beard” because of the white hairs overflowing from its capitulum and which look like a small goatee.
• THE PIGAMON •
Ranunculaceae family
This plant is considered irritating to the touch and toxic to ingestion.
• ROOSTER CREST RHINANTHE •
Family of Orobanchaceae
Its vernacular name “rooster’s crest” refers to the very particular shape of its corollas reminiscent of the crests of the rooster.
• THE ALPINE CALAMITY •
Lamiaceae family
Clinopodium alpinum, the thyme of rocks, is a perennial plant.
• THE SAGE OF THE MEADOWS •
Lamiaceae family
Sage is an aromatic and nectar-rich plant with abundant flowering that is highly appreciated by pollinators.
• THE ALPINE BARTSIA •
Family of Orobanchaceae
It is an original plant with these upper leaves of the same dark violet as its trumpet-shaped flowers.
• THE YELLOW REHAB •
Family of Sedaceae
Since ancient times, the yellow reseda is one of the most used plants in the manufacture of yellow tinctures.
• THE COMMON BISCUTELLE •
Brassicaceae family
In France it is in danger of extinction in some regions. It is distinguished by its bristly habit and yellow inflorescences.
• THE SAINFOIN CULTIVATED •
Fabaceae Family
It used to be grown as a forage for cattle, and it still is today. This plant has a very dense root system and is rich in condensed tannins that limit the release of methane from livestock.
• VIPERINE •
Boraginaceae family
It behaves like a crop weed. It is a toxic plant in high doses, especially for livestock, due to the presence of pyrrolizidinic alkaloids.
• ANEMONE •
Ranunculaceae family
In the photo above you can see its fruit, the achene. Anemone comes from the Greek ἀνεμώνη, often interpreted as a derivative of ἄνεμος (anemos = wind current) which would mean “daughter of the wind”, because the wind carries away these seeds.