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Flora

The flora of the Vanoise National Park includes more than a thousand species of different bio-geographical origins.

 
As well as alpine species there are eastern and southern species, and arctic-alpine remnants of the ice ages.

Pale Pasque Flower
Among the nationally protected species, there are about ten androsace species, the Alpine aquilegia, different sedges (among which the Two-Coloured Sedge), Alpine Bells, Queen of the Alps, various mountain primroses (the Piemont Primerose) and saxifrages...

The Vanoise National Park is also the last French stronghold of the twinflower.
Pale Pasque Flower
© PNV / Jacques Perrier
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