Altitude du Haut Chitelet Garden

Xonrupt-Longemer, France, France

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The Jardin d'altitude du Haut Chitelet (Altitude du Haut Chitelet Garden) is a 1.5-hectare high-altitude botanical garden specializing in alpine and mountain plants, located at 1,228 meters elevation on the Route des Crêtes near the Hohneck peak in Xonrupt-Longemer, Vosges, France, about 1 km south of the Col de la Schlucht in the Vosges massif.

The garden displays more than 2,500 plant species from cold and mountainous regions around the world, including the Vosges mountains, the Alps, and other global mountain areas, with each flower, plant, and shrub labeled with its botanical name, family, and origin. It features landscaped rock gardens where primroses, gentians, blue oaks, edelweiss, and other emblematic alpine flowers bloom, plus a natural bog (tourbière) and an altitude beech forest (hêtraie d'altitude) that showcase two characteristic natural habitats of the high Vosges.