Alpine catchfly (Heliosperma alpestre)
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| velkavrh17. 09. 2017 08:39:49 |
There is some confusion with the campions. We have two alpine campions, which do not differ much in flowers for the uninitiated. The petal has four teeth and the lateral ones are lower. The difference is only in the stem color. The presented one has reddish stems. I think only the seventh picture is not correct. This campion is searched under three names - Heliosperma alpestre, correctly also Silene quadrifida and also Silene alpestris.
The presented one is correctly called alpine catchfly. The similar one is called four-toothed campion - Silene pusilla (translated as low catchfly in Hoppe) - it has green stems and is a few cm shorter. Stem branching and leaves are almost the same. The four-toothed one is supposed to flower one month longer. Peter Strgar also presented it in his albums. Similar is also Silene rupestris - rock catchfly. This similar catchfly has only two teeth in the flower and narrower petals and broader leaves.
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| zlatica17. 09. 2017 09:19:35 |
So which butterwort do you think is on the last picture? Green? It was photographed on Snežnik. 
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| velkavrh26. 09. 2017 19:17:51 |
This is in every way the four-toothed catchfly - Silene pusilla. Flora Alpin does not have it under this Latin name. Hoppe translates it as low catchfly - pictures are the same. Peter Strgar presents it as mountain helleborine - Heliosperma alpestre. Vlado Ravnik presents it the same way. Zaplana presents it as mountain campion - Silene alpestris. There is a bit of confusion, it seems to me.
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| malenka18. 11. 2020 12:08:38 |
Error in the name: heliosperna does not exist, correct is heliosperma.
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| Tadej18. 11. 2020 23:26:38 |
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