Bilberry turning at the treeline
Engadin · 15 September 2017
Mid-September at around two thousand metres, where the ground cover turns weeks before anything taller does. The red is bilberry, which colours early and hard at altitude and carries most of the autumn here on its own. The boulders are glacial, plucked off the ridge above and dropped where the ice gave out.
The conifers thinning up the slope are larch and Swiss stone pine, the only two that grow this high. Larch is deciduous, unusually for a conifer, so a fortnight after this the whole slope would have gone gold as well.
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