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