PEAT BOGS IN THE HIGH VOSGES

 

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

 

     II - Lispach peat bog

  1) - SUMMER 2003 (Photos L.S.)

  

     We can see the access to the floating raft in the center of the photo.

     In this peat bog, the floating raft is especially parcelled out, and far from the shore.

     In this area, there is a strong density of english sundews. (Drosera anglica)

     In the background, on the mountainsides, we can see the Bresse's ski pistes.

     A beautiful english sundews clump, close to the water, with Lycopodium.

     Some of the english sundews are growing on the waterfront.

     A beautiful group of Drosera X obovata.

     Between many small islands of sphagnum moss, little peat areas appear naked but strewn with Carex and sundews.

    

    

    

     Few herons flying away.
  

  2) - SUMMER 1999 (Photos G. Bach)

  

     Same view as the fourth photo, four years earlier.

     The Drosera X obovata's seedlings are squater than the Drosera anglica's.

    

    

    

     We can find many representatives of the utricularia kind in few water ponds. Let's notice the Eriophorum's white inflorescence.