Alpine Red Campion flower / Silene dioica. Appenzell Alps, Switzerland, Europe.

Alpine Red Campion flowers (Silene dioica, in the Caryophyllaceae family) at Saxer Lücke pass in the Alpstein limestone range, Appenzell Alps, Switzerland, Europe. August is a good month to see many attractive alpine wildflowers blooming. Appenzell Innerrhoden is Switzerland's most traditional and smallest-population canton (second smallest by area).