Mountain aven Dryas octopetala, I reckon that I could easily make a case for this being my favourite plant, and what finer location to see it in than at sea level at Bettyhill, with the beautiful Torrisdale beach as a back drop?
Bettyhill is a famous botanical site on the extreme north of Scotland in the county of Sutherland, and is particularly noted not only for its rare flora, but also for mountain plants which here occur right down at sea level such as these mountain avens.
Here's another mountain plant, yellow saxifrage Saxifraga aizoides, growing with (amongst other plants) crowberry Empetrum nigrum and juniper Juniperus communis.
Autumn gentian gentianella amarella ssp septentrionalis. This subspecies is endemic to the UK and almost confined to the far north of Scotland.
There's plenty of devil's-bit scabious Succisa pratensis in the area and I'm pretty sure that this is a moss carder bee Bombus muscorum.
Black bog rush Schoenus nigricans
Blysmus rufus
The river Borgie.
I'm always surprised to see dark-green fritillary in the far north of Scotland. This is a female.
Juniper
The river Naver
Carex extensa, long-bracted sedge.
Torrisdale bay
Hoary whitlow grass Draba incana
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