El Chaltén, trekking capital of Argentina
Province of Santa Cruz • Argentina
Photos of flora in El Chaltén
Tiny plants of exquisite beauty, orchids, a variety of shrubs and trees that change the landscape color in autumn with ocher, oranges, reds and yellows, inhabits between the forest and the steppe. Although apparently desert, the steppe houses the largest number of species.
Prickly HeathGaultheria mucronata
EscalloniaEscallonia rubra
Fueguian EdelweisPerezia recurvata
YaretaMulinum valentini
BlechnumBlechnum penna-marina
AmancayAlstroemeria patagonica
Chinese LanternMisodendrum punctulatum
Dog orchidCodonorchis lessonii
MarancelSisyrinchium junceum
Oxalis
Porcelain orchidChloraea magellanica.
Topa-TopaCalceolaria biflora
Caltha
Wild-blue PeaVicia magellanica
Wild-blue PeaVicia magellanica
SaxifragaSaxifraga magellanica
GeraniumGeranium magellanicum
GeumGeum magellanicum
Arjona patagonica
LicopodioLycopodium magellanicum
BlanquitaHypochaeris incana
AnemoneAnemone multifida
Yellow violetViola magellanica
Box-leaf barberryBerberis microphylla
Waterfall plantOurisia poeppigii
FirebushEmbothrium coccineum
Yellow orchidGavilea lutea
NeneosMulinum spinosum
FachineChiliotrichum diffusum
Cojín blancoJunellia tridactylites
ButtercupRanunculus peduncularis
Guanaco Bush, Fire tongueAnarthrophyllum desideratum
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