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.
Dog orchidCodonorchis lessonii
AmancayAlstroemeria patagonica
Cojín blancoJunellia tridactylites
Wild-blue PeaVicia magellanica
Guanaco Bush, Fire tongueAnarthrophyllum desideratum
Oxalis
Chinese LanternMisodendrum punctulatum
Prickly HeathGaultheria mucronata
Porcelain orchidChloraea magellanica.
FirebushEmbothrium coccineum
AnemoneAnemone multifida
Caltha
BlanquitaHypochaeris incana
GeumGeum magellanicum
Yellow orchidGavilea lutea
EscalloniaEscallonia rubra
Waterfall plantOurisia poeppigii
Topa-TopaCalceolaria biflora
LicopodioLycopodium magellanicum
Fueguian EdelweisPerezia recurvata
BlechnumBlechnum penna-marina
Arjona patagonica
MarancelSisyrinchium junceum
SaxifragaSaxifraga magellanica
FachineChiliotrichum diffusum
NeneosMulinum spinosum
GeraniumGeranium magellanicum
ButtercupRanunculus peduncularis
Wild-blue PeaVicia magellanica
Yellow violetViola magellanica
Box-leaf barberryBerberis microphylla
YaretaMulinum valentini
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