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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.
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.
In the Vanoise, there are four levels of vegetation:
- The nival level (At this altitude, glaciers cover the
summits)
- The alpine level (between 3000 m and 2000 m)
- The sub-alpine level (between 2000 m and 1500 m)
- The montane level (between 1500 m and 800 m)
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