The Oberallgäu with the Alpine foothills, the Allgäu High Alps and the Nagelfluhkette Nature Park is considered an area with high biodiversity in the Alpine region.
Due to the geological diversity as well as the type of management, especially through extensive alpine farming, many new, very species-rich habitats have emerged over the centuries.
We would like to show you a selection here, which we constantly update. Be curious, we will present you more fascinating plants and animal species in the Oberallgäu at regular intervals..
Ciliated alpine rose (Rhododendron hirsutum)
(Arnica montana)
(Gentiana acaulis, Gentiana kochiana)
Marienfrauenschuh (Cypripedium calceolus)
Fun Facts: The flower is a kettle trap. Sand bees looking for nectar slip down the smooth walls of the lip and can only leave it again through narrow openings at the rear end. In doing so, they become coated with pollen packets and unload brought pollen at the stigma. They are guided through light-colored "windows" at the rear of the lip.
(Carlina acaulis)
Fun Facts: The large flower baskets, of the plant popularly known as "weather thistle", are wide open in sunshine. In rain, fog and at night, the silvery white bracts close, protecting the tubular flowers from wetness and cold.
(Drosera rotundifolia)
Fun Facts: The flower is a kettle trap. Sand bees looking for nectar slip down the smooth walls of the lip and can only leave it again through narrow openings at the rear end. In doing so, they become coated with pollen packets and unload brought pollen at the stigma. They are guided through light-colored "windows" at the rear of the lip.
(Sphagnum sp.)
Fun Facts: Peat mosses can store about 20 times their dry weight in water and play a central role in the formation of meter-thick layers of peat in raised bogs: They only grow at the top, their lower parts die off quickly. In the wet, oxygen-poor and acidic subsoil, this dead material is only incompletely decomposed and pressed under increasing pressure - peat is formed. In Central Europe, peatlands form about 1 mm of peat per year.