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Jardin D'altitude Du Haut Chitelet
The Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet (1.5 hectares) is a botanical garden specializing in high-elevation alpine plants, located at about 1220 metres elevation on the Route des Crêtes, near the peak of Hohneck (Vosges), about 1 km south of the Col de la Schlucht in Vosges, Lorraine, France. It is maintained by the Jardin botanique du Montet and the ''Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Nancy'', open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. Location and climate The Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet is located at an elevation of 1,228 m, on the northwest side of the Vosges massif on the Route des Crêtes, near the peak of Hohneck (Vosges) about 1 km south of the Col de la Schlucht, 88400 Xonrupt-Longemer in Vosges (department), Lorraine (region), France. The garden contains the source of the river Vologne and is surrounded by the eponymous high-elevation meadows "Hautes Chaumes", which are typical for the tops of the highest peaks of the Vosges at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xonrupt-Longemer
Xonrupt-Longemer () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France. Its inhabitants are called . Geography The commune is located in the upper valley of the Vologne river, that goes up to the Schlucht mountain pass. The lowest point of this valley is located above sea level. The Longemer lake is located at and the highest point is the at , located near the Hohneck. It is one of 188 communes in the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park. Points of interest *Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet. * ("Fairies bridge"), built in the 18th century. *, with a bell from 1650. Population See also *Communes of the Vosges department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Vosges department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vologne
The Vologne () is a river of the Vosges department in France. It is a right tributary of the Moselle. Its source is in the Vosges Mountains, on the northwestern slope of the Hohneck. It flows through the lakes of Retournemer and Longemer, and passes the villages of Xonrupt-Longemer, Granges-sur-Vologne, Lépanges-sur-Vologne and Docelles, finally flowing into the Moselle in Pouxeux. Geography The source of the Vologne is within the Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet. It flows through the lake of Retournemer and Lac de Longemer before receiving the Jamagne, a spillway of Lac de Gérardmer. It flows by Granges-sur-Vologne, receives the Corbeline, the Neuné (south of Bruyères) and the Barba at Docelles, then flows into the Moselle at Jarménil, 10 km upstream of Épinal. It is long and its drainage basin has an area of . Tributaries Hydrology The Vologne is a substantial river, as a result of its neighbours in the region of the Vosges Mountains. Its flow rate has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Botanical Gardens In France
This list of botanical gardens in France is intended to contain all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in France. Ain * Arboretum de Cormoranche sur Saône, Cormoranche-sur-Saône * Parc botanique de la Teyssonnière, Buellas Aisne * Arboretum de Craonne, Craonne * Arboretum de Septmonts, Septmonts * Arboretum de Vauclair * Espace Pierres Folles, St Jean des Vignes (Soissons) * Jardins du Nouveau Monde, Blérancourt Allier * Arboretum de Balaine, Villeneuve-sur-Allier * Arboretum de l'Ile de la Ronde, Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule * Arboretum et parc de la Rigolée, Avermes * Arboretum Paul Barge, Ferrières-sur-Sichon * Parc floral et arboré de la Chènevière, Abrest Alpes-de-Haute-Provence * Jardin botanique des Cordeliers, Digne-les-Bains * Jardins de Salagon, Mane Alpes-Maritimes * Arboretum du Sarroudier, Le Mas * Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein, Roure * Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret, Antibes * Jardin botanique exotique de Menton (Jardin botan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically been considered as a natural barrier between Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Mount Elbrus in Russia, Europe's highest mountain, is situated in the Western Caucasus. On the southern side, the Lesser Caucasus includes the Javakheti Plateau and the Armenian highlands, part of which is in Turkey. The Caucasus is divided into the North Caucasus and South Caucasus, although the Western Caucasus also exists as a distinct geographic space within the North Caucasus. The Greater Caucasus mountain range in the north is mostly shared by Russia and Georgia as well as the northernmost parts of Azerbaijan. The Lesser Caucasus mountain range in the south is occupied by several independent states, mostly by Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, but also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycopodium
''Lycopodium'' (from Greek ''lykos'', wolf and ''podion'', diminutive of ''pous'', foot) is a genus of clubmosses, also known as ground pines or creeping cedars, in the family Lycopodiaceae. Two very different circumscriptions of the genus are in use. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), ''Lycopodium'' is one of nine genera in the subfamily Lycopodioideae, and has from nine to 15 species. In other classifications, the genus is equivalent to the whole of the subfamily, since it includes all of the other genera. More than 40 species are accepted. Description They are flowerless, vascular, terrestrial or epiphytic plants, with widely branched, erect, prostrate, or creeping stems, with small, simple, needle-like or scale-like leaves that cover the stem and branches thickly. The leaves contain a single, unbranched vascular strand, and are microphylls by definition. The kidney-shaped (reniform) spore-cases (sporangia) contain spores of one kind only, ( i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cicerbita Alpina
''Cicerbita alpina'', commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle or alpine blue-sow-thistle is a perennial herbaceous species of plant sometimes placed in the genus '' Cicerbita'' of the family Asteraceae, and sometimes placed in the genus ''Lactuca'' as ''Lactuca alpina''. It is native to upland and mountainous parts of Europe. It was once used as an herb in Sami cooking, and known as ''jierja''. Description ''Cicerbita alpina'' on average reaches in height, with a minimum height of and a maximum height of . The stem is erect and usually unbranched. It has glandular hairs and contains a white milky juice, a kind of latex. The alternate leaves are broad, triangular and clasping the stem, bluish-grey beneath, hairy along the veins and with toothed margins. The inflorescence is a panicle. Each composite flower is about wide and is set within a whorl of bracts. The individual blue-violet florets are tongue-like with a toothed, truncated tip, each having five stamens and a fused car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polygonum Bistorta
''Bistorta officinalis'' ( synonym ''Persicaria bistorta''), known as bistort, common bistort, European bistort or meadow bistort, is a species of flowering plant in the dock family Polygonaceae native to Europe and northern and western Asia. Other common names include snakeroot, snake-root, snakeweed and Easter-ledges. Description ''Bistorta officinalis'' is an herbaceous perennial growing to tall by wide. It has a thick, twisted rootstock which has probably given it its common name of snakeroot. The foliage is normally basal with a few smaller leaves produced near the lower end of the flowering stems. The leaves usually hairless; the basal ones are longish-oval with long winged stalks and rounded or heart-shaped bases; the upper ones are few and are triangular, tapered and stalkless. There are stipules at their base which are fused into a sheath surrounding the stem. The petioles are broadly winged. The inflorescence is a spike. The plant blooms from late spring into autu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnocarpium Dryopteris
''Gymnocarpium dryopteris'', the western oakfern, common oak fern , oak fern, or northern oak fern, is a deciduous fern of the family Cystopteridaceae. It is widespread across much of North America and Eurasia. It has been found in Canada, the United States, Greenland, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and most of Europe. Description ''Gymnocarpium dryopteris'' has small, delicate fronds up to 40 cm (16 inches) long, with ternately-compound pinnae (leaves). Fronds occur singly. On the underside of matured pinnae the naked sori can be found (the Latin generic name ''gymnocarpium'' means "with naked fruit"). The species grows in coniferous woodlands and on shale talus slopes. ''Gymnocarpium dryopteris'', a forest understory plant, is not found in association with ''Quercus'' (oak). In cultivation in the UK this plant and the cultivar "Plumosum" have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. References External links dryopteris :''The moth g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vosges Mountains
The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single geomorphological unit and low mountain range of around in area. It runs in a north-northeast direction from the Burgundian Gate (the Belfort–Ronchamp– Lure line) to the Börrstadt Basin (the Winnweiler– Börrstadt–Göllheim line), and forms the western boundary of the Upper Rhine Plain. The Grand Ballon is the highest peak at , followed by the Storkenkopf (), and the Hohneck ().IGN maps available oGéoportail/ref> Geography Geographically, the Vosges Mountains are wholly in France, far above the Col de Saverne separating them from the Palatinate Forest in Germany. The latter area logically continues the same Vosges geologic structure but traditionally receives this different name for historical and political reasons. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jardin Remarquable
The Remarkable Gardens of France is intended to be a list and description, by region, of the more than three hundred gardens classified as ''"Jardins remarquables"'' by the Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France. Gardens of Alsace Bas-Rhin * Brumath - Jardin de l'Escalier. (1973) Small private modern romantic floral garden(See Photos)* Kintzheim – The Park of Ruins of the Château de Kintzheim. An early 19th-century romantic landscape garden(See photos)* Kolbsheim – The Garden of the Château de Kolbsheim. (1703) French garden and English landscape park.(See photos)* Ottrott – Le Domaine de Windeck. (1835). Romantic landscape park, with views of the ruined castle of Ottrott(See photos)* Plobsheim – Le Jardin de Marguerite. (1990) Small private English "secret" garden in the Alsatian village of Plobsheim(See photos)* Saverne – Jardin botanique du col de Saverne. Botanical garden in an enclave in the Vosges Forest.(S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising France, Russia, and Britain) and the Triple Alliance (containing Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy). Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914, following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Climate
Alpine climate is the typical weather (climate) for elevations above the tree line, where trees fail to grow due to cold. This climate is also referred to as a mountain climate or highland climate. Definition There are multiple definitions of alpine climate. In the Köppen climate classification, the alpine and mountain climates are part of group ''E'', along with the polar climate, where no month has a mean temperature higher than . According to the Holdridge life zone system, there are two mountain climates which prevent tree growth : a) the alpine climate, which occurs when the mean biotemperature of a location is between . The alpine climate in Holdridge system is roughly equivalent to the warmest tundra climates (ET) in the Köppen system. b) the alvar climate, the coldest mountain climate since the biotemperature is between 0 °C and 1.5 °C (biotemperature can never be below 0 °C). It corresponds more or less to the coldest tundra climates and to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
