The daphne camélée or camélée of the Alps ( Daphne cneorum ) is a shrub with persistent sheets of the family of the Thyméléacées.

It is an often prostrate plant, with the young duveteux branches, with the sheets oval, glabrous, with the odorous flowers pink, hairy, grouped in final inflorescences.

One meets it on the lawns and rubbles limestones up to 2100 m with a surface of distribution which is rather continental in Europe.

One finds for example the daphne camélée on the cornice of the Reculée of Loulle, on the Jurassic plate with 700 meters of altitude, not far from Champagnole: it is about a single protected space in the area. Flowering takes place in the middle of spring (at the end of April in 2007).

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