PEAT BOGS IN THE HIGH VOSGES

 

I - Machais peat bog
II - Lispach peat bog
III - Pinguiculas near Blanchemer lake

 

     I - Machais peat bog

     This peat bog is mainly overgrown with high grasses, peat bog's bilberry, alders and birches.
     However there is still places with sphagnum moss and free water were we can find carnivorous plants.
  

  1) - SUMMER 2003 (Photos L.S.)

  

     The part downhill the peat bog is covered with high grasses, and made by few ditches and ponds where the water is coming into the open air, sometimes with watery plants, and surrounded with sphagnum moss.

     The peat bog's south-western part, is dryer and covered with peat bog's bilberries and birches.

     In the peat bog's eastern part, there is still a beautiful water area on which move some parcelled out carpets of sphagnum moss.

     Some carpets of sphagnum moss are overrun with both round-leafed sundews... (Drosera rotundifolia)

     ... And Calluna vulgaris.

     But we also can find round-leafed sundews on little peat bog areas surrounding the ponds.

     The water area is strewn with small island of sphagnum moss and others plants, among which round-leafed sundews.

     The overhang slopes are covered with a broad-leaved trees and conifer forest.

     Lots of dragonflies and young ladies are going for a walk on the edge...

    
  

  2) - SUMMER 1999 (Photos G. Bach)

  

     Photo during a nature walk of some of the Rossolis' founder members.

     Picture taken in a south-eastern axis.

     Little water area surrounded with high grasses and beautiful sphagnum moss clumps.

     Picture taken in a western axis.

     The floating raft parcells out the water areas until closing them.

    

    

    

    

    

    

Textes et photos, Laurent Schweiter (traduction Adélaïde Léopoldès, toute reproduction interdite sans l'accord de l'auteur