2ND

Ready for breakfast 

Astragalus aduncus

Crambe orientalis

Eremostachys moluccelloides

Medicago

Nepeta

Papaver persicum the petals are very fragile and have often fallen off by morning so we were lucky

caterpillar

Hyocyamus reticulatus

Egyptian henbane

detail Iris paradoxa

We drove up to the top of the Guzeldere Pass - an area near to the border where we had to surrender our passports to the Turkish Soldiers in the outpost.  

We were not permitted to look for Tulipa koyuncii which was in an area which was out of bounds.   The tulip is either yellow or white and has just been recently separated from Tulipa biflora. 

We had lunch, collected our papers and moved on.  

Asragalus alyssoides?

Verbascum phoeniceum (right)

Orobanche bungeana

Onobrychis radiata

Iris urmiensis

Salvia kronenbrgii unopened on the left

Linum trinervium

Linum flavum

We found the centaureas on rocks by the side of the road with the linarias

Centaurea karduchorum   2044m

Linaria grandiflora   2032m

Iris urmiensis in bud

2079m

Astragalus

Cardamine uliginosa

Stream in the damp meadow

Buttercups

Trollius ranunculinus

Forget-me-nots

Power lines

17th Century Kurdish fortress at Hoșap above the Zernek Valley

An old ruined fortress and interesting jagged walls

It is a fossilised dinosaur's spine!