Flora and Fauna

When we speak of flora and fauna, we should especially have the high value of the "local" variety of plants, fungi and animals in mind. In the richly structured cultural landscape of past centuries, the regional biodiversity could unfold itself remarkably. New and more intensive farming methods on, the other Hand, support, unfortunately, the opposite. 

Eule.jpg 

Owl
Bubo bubo

 

Mauereidechse.jpg 

Wall Lizard
Podarcis muralis

 

Fischotter.jpg 

River Otter
Lutra lutra

 

 Schneerose.jpg 

Christmas Rose
Helleborus niger

 

Großer-Ehrenpreis.jpg 

Large Speedwell
Veronica teucrium

 

Kornelkirsche.jpg 

Kornelcherry
Cornus mas

   

 

Palpen--oder-Tasterläufer.jpg

Palpen- or Buttonrunner, Eucoenenia spelaea

The nature of these tiny, eyeless soil animal group from the class of arachnids was a discovered few decades ago for the
first time at the surroundings of the Erlaufcanyon. To date, no other place in Austria is known, where you can find these special creatures as numerous as in the Erlaufcanyon. 

Rehschröter.jpg

  

The Small Rehschröter, Platycerus caraboides
A very rare kind of stag beetle

  

 

Große-Quelljungfer.jpg

Great Bridesmaid,
Cordulegaster heros

This kind reaches ist northwestern Distribution Limit at the source streams of the Erlauf.

 

Kleines-Nachtpfauenauge,.jpg

 
Emperor Moth,
Saturnia pavonia

The males of this Moth-kind are diurnal, the females nocturnal.

 

Voralpen-Spindel-.jpg 
Broadleaf- or Prealp-Spindletree,
Euonymus latifolius

A very frequent shrub in the environment of the Erlaufcanyon.

 

 

Pulsatilla-oenipontana.jpg An endangered
Cow or Pasque kind, Pulsatilla oenipontana
now only encountered extremely rarely, it used to be common at the Schauboden-Hochries region.

 

Rotföhre.jpg 

 

White pine, Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris
 A characteristic species on the Erlaufschlucht