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Flowers of Provence, Part 5
Echium to
Gladiolus

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Image 1. Certainly an Echium, Vipérine, probably Echium vulgare, the common bugloss

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Image 2. Certainly Echium, Vipérine, probably Echium vulgare, the common bugloss


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Image 3. Erodium sp., in the geranium family

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Image 4. Eryngium sp.

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Image 5. Euphorbia cyparissias, called the Cypress spurge

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Image 6. A species of Euphorbia, or spurge, from a subalpine meadow

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Image 7. A species of Euphorbia, or spurge, from a subalpine meadow

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Image 8. A species of Euphorbia, or spurge


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Image 9. A species of Euphorbia, or spurge

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Image 10. A species of Euphorbia, or spurge

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Image 11. Fagopyrum esculentum, a kind of Buckwheat

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Image 12. Filipendula sp., possibly Filipendula vulgaris, or dropwort

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Image 13. Filipendula sp.

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Image 14. Possibly Fritillaria involucrata, in French, Fritillaire or fritillary

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Image 15. Fumaria officinalis, Fumeterre, the common fumitory or earth smoke

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Image 16. Galium anisophyllon, a species of bedstraw, or Gaillet,
growing near the summit of the Lure


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Image 17. Probably Galium verum, le Gaillet jaune, or lady's bedstraw

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Image 18. Genista sp., a Genêt, or Broom, or Greenweed in the pea family.
This one is small and a bit spiny, growing close to the ground, and common.


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Image 19. Gentiana lutea, or great yellow gentian, growing in a subalpine meadow

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Image 20. Probably Gentiana nivalis, the snow gentian, although it might be Gentiana verna,
the spring gentian, which also has this amazing blue color


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Image 21. Geranium pyreniacum, the hedge or mountain cranesbill

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Image 22. Probably Geranium sanguinium, Bloody cranesbill,although there are a
number of small wild geraniums in Provence and it might be one of the others


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Image 23. Plumose tendrils of Geum montanum, alpine avens

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Image 24. Probably Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus,
or possibly Gladiolus italicus, both species of gladiola


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Image 25. Probably Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus,
or possibly Gladiolus italicus, both species of gladiola


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Image 26. Probably Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus,
or possibly Gladiolus italicus, both species of gladiola

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