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