2010.08.01 N Neunkirchen (between Scheibwaldhhe and Bieskogel, Alpine meadow 1895 m AMSL).Quite common in the Northern Limestone Alps.Flowering in june/july, flowers with yellow centre haven't been pollinated yet, after pollination they turn pink: so those are still young flowers while it was already august when the shot was taken.The explanation for this paradox is easy: those grew just above an Alpine cirque where there was still some snow left (by 1st of august! a shot of the snow I found there is posted here), the place where this one grows certainly was covered with snow much longer than the area around - where not a single flowering specimen of this species was to be found.In and around such cirques you can oftentimes "look back" at spring vegetation even in high summer.(Note, there are no glaciers on mountains here, at this altitude - in Austria glaciers don't extend below 2500 metres: what snow is left on Rax mountain in summer isn't a "glacier" but just leftover snow from winter.)The leaves you can see there by the way are not of A. chamaejasme but probably of Homogyne alpina - identified as Salix reticulata by Juan Sanchez!German name: Wimper-Mannsschild
