Flowers
Flowers brighten meadows, clearings, stone walls, and pastures, marking the rhythm of the seasons with their colors and scents. Some are rare or endemic to Lessinia, while others are common species that everyone knows but that still enchant those who walk by. To recognize a flower is to appreciate the richness of the natural landscape and to respect its fragility, for their beauty is both fleeting and precious.
Flowers of Valpolicella
Lathyrus
Peony
Savory
Lamium
Cornfield gladiolus
Bastard balm
Snowdrop
Crown vetch
Bindweed
Primrose
Wild sorghum
Meadow-rue
Buttercup
Leucanthemum vulgare
Galium
Horsetail
Goat’s-beard seed head
Dandelion
Forget-me-not (Myosotis)
Star-of-Bethlehem
Mouse-ear chickweed
Poppies
White sweet violet
Jerusalem artichoke
Lungwort
Periwinkle
Wild geranium
Naples garlic
Meadow clary
Chicory
Bellflower
Viper’s bugloss
Ivy-leaved toadflax
Globularia
Polygala chamaebuxus
Grape hyacinth (Muscari)
Hepatica
Crepis sancta
Speedwell
Sweet violet
Spurge
Common daisy
Red valerian
Hepatica – to be removed
Globularia
Honesty
Ajuga
Orchids of Valpolicella
Orchis simia
Orchis purpurea
Ophrys sphegodes
Ophrys insectifera
Ophrys holosericea
Ophrys benacensis
Neottia
Listera ovata
Violet limodore
Himantoglossum
Cephalanthera rubra
Anacamptis pyramidalis
Flowers of Lessinia
Orange lily
Lily of the valley
Salvia nemorosa
Poet’s daffodil
Dog rose
Mullein
Sorrel flower
Gentian
Yarrow
Autumn crocuses
Mountain catchfly
False hellebore
Twisted milkwort
Cross gentian
Alpine knapweed
Crocuses
Bird’s-foot trefoil and Globularia
Purple mullein
Columbine
Wild pansy
Alpine knapweed
Arnica
Gentian
Primrose
Martagon lily
Mountain clematis
Squill
Great yellow gentian
Flax
Angelica
Carline thistle
Restharrow
Wormwood
Gentian
Yarrow
Wild basil (Clinopodium)
Edelweiss
Houseleek
German gentian
Globeflower
Winter savory
Fringed pink
Monkshood
Scabious
Phyteuma (rampion)
Eryngo
Willowherb
Rhododendron
Orchids of Lessinia
Butterfly orchid (Platanthera)
Elder-flowered orchid
Nigritella rubra
Nigritella nigra
Dactylorhiza maculata
Cephalanthera rubra