For all you flower and plant people, here are some of my favorites from the flora of the national park. If anyone can identify them positively, please add a comment. Otherwise I will just go with my own conjecture (i.e. make things up). This was my favorite. It looks like an orchid to me! Check out those green veins in the leaves!
This one grew very high, in otherwise completely barren areas--very rocky talus fields. It was only about two inches high--and half of that is the flower, as you can see! This was also in the area where Michael and I were getting sand and ice-blasted from the wind! What a tenacious pioneer.
An alpine rock garden!
Definitely from the wild pea family. Almost (!) rivals our cultivated sweet peas at home. (Michael says I cannot say they are prettier than our sweet peas, since he loves them. I´ll let you decide.)
Not sure if these are native (one Argentine I talked to whose wife works in a native plant nursery thought they were native) but around Bariloche are some of the most gorgeous displays of lupine I have ever seen. This is at the very start of the trek, which was also a ski area. White lupine!
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Maybe the whitish one is some kind of anemone?? Pat
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