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velkavrh2. 10. 2011 06:27:07

Vespuci, on the first picture it's evergreen rock cress and we can still find it blooming now, the other species have wilted. On the second picture it's a wilted finger orchid, previously called five-fingered orchids. There are several species, including the Triglav rose. They have characteristic leaves as seen in the picture. Since there's no flower I can't identify the species. The most common is pre-alpine and about a week ago I photographed it, I think on Ojstrica. It blooms white. We also have yellow species from golden finger orchid onwards, they have similar leaves, but even the wilted flowers are much smaller.

vespuci2. 10. 2011 14:25:04

velkavrh, thanks for the reply. Yes, I photographed both in September, rock cress a bit below the summit of Košuta-Veliki vrh, the other on Savinjsko sedlo. I thought the second flower had chocolate brown flowers.

velkavrh3. 10. 2011 12:42:14

This morning, since I have afternoon shifts this week, I went through my entries of mountain flowers and arrived at the surprising number of 180 different flowers. Some of course repeat. Unrecognized maybe just over ten, maybe wrongly recognized as many. Now the flowering season is of course ending and mountain nature will soon rest under deep snow. In spring again hunting for our little beauties. I'll probably browse a bit more through my recorded tours, since I haven't published everything. I'll surely find another ten. Unfortunately there are also many unusable shots not for posting. Not everything succeeds. Next year I'll focus more on individual species like bloody cranesbills, rock cresses, bellflowers and various yellow flowers like hawksbeards, hawkweeds; Now I at least approximately know which month individual flowers bloom. Best regards.

vespuci3. 10. 2011 15:59:06

I hope that tomorrow too, when I go to Grintavec, I'll catch some blooming ones.

velkavrh7. 10. 2011 09:08:24

Since I see that autumn is really coming to the land and in the hills sometimes winter without transition, still a couple of unpublished little flowers from my tours this year.

Trollius europaeus, common or golden globeflower - buttercup family. I encountered it everywhere. This one photographed on tour around Krvavec just above parking at Planina Jezerce.

Lots of alpine bellflowers on the path below Veliki Zvoh to Planina Dolge Njive on the same tour.

In spring couldn't go without black hellebore-Helleborus niger-from the trip to Komna-moss right under the hut.

In spring I encountered alpine butterwort-Pinguicula-from the trip to Palec and Zelenjak.

On the same trip, meadow rue-Thalictrum aquilegiifolium-anemones-Ranunculaceae caught my attention.

Beautiful meadow rue also on the trip to the bivouac below Kočna right above Taška.

I also played around and found various trifles like this bird vetch-Vicia cracca-legumes-Fabaceae-which I saw at the beginning of the path to Pristovski Storžič.

Nearby also common sweet clover-Melilotus officinalis legumes-Fabaceae-I had no idea it belongs to clovers.

Nearby there were also whole fields of common thistle-Cirsium vulgare.

I haven't introduced white hellebore-Veratrum album-hellebore family-Melanthiaceae yet, although I see it often-this one from the trip to the bivouac below Grintavec.

From the trip to Begunjščica right after the hut at Zelenica-red catchfly-Silene dioica-which is very abundant along paths.

There are many species of thistles and you have to be a real expert to identify them correctly. I can't identify more than five species. This is alpine thistle-Cirsium erisithales-from the path to Cjanovca below Hudičev boršt.

This should be the golden finger orchid - photographed on the hike to Veliko špičje shortly after the hut Pri Triglavskih jezerih.

Now a couple of flowers whose names I haven't discovered. This one also grew under Hudičev boršt, the whole Zaplata was a real mountain botanical garden, as I found many things there, from fringed gentian to edelweiss. This flower resembles thistle, but i

I encountered this bunch of flowers on the path to Dolič during the ascent to Verner, right on the forepeak of Verner, unfortunately already almost wilted and I can't identify which flower it is. It should be the feathered hawkweed.

I also photographed this white shrub under Hudičev boršt and I don't know what it is either.

In spring, lady's slippers were my unexplored area. This one is from the hike to Veliki Bogatin right after the hut on Komna. This is the common fragrant orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea - orchidaceae.

From the hike to Kalška gora somewhere on the path to Dolge njive. This is the alpine willowherb - Epilobium montanum - onagraceae.

The hike to Pristovski Storžič proved to have very diverse vegetation that I haven't seen anywhere else, from natural wolf's bane to various nettles and sages that I still don't recognize. This is soapwort.

Another unidentified yellow alpine flower probably from the genus of asters or hawkweeds.

velkavrh9. 10. 2011 09:38:54

Mainly I correct wrongly identified flowers or add identifications that I figure out later or someone kindly whispers to me. Today this correction doesn't work. So I don't forget. Under the fourteenth picture is Fritsch's knapweed - Centaurea scabiosa fritschii - Asteraceae. Under number sixteen is small-flowered Spanish clover - Dorycnium germanicum - Fabaceae. The other three unidentified - fifteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth have no answer. As twentieth I added today one already published once, but unidentified. Should be Kerner's hawk's-beard - Crepis kerneri. Since I had time this morning, I reviewed all hawk's-beards I found - there are twenty-six. But some species are very similar. Undoubtedly Kerner's has lanceolate long narrow leaves, long thin stems, grows in clusters like this and has several full flowers on those thin stems, all well visible in the picture.

lynx9. 10. 2011 15:05:13

Those below Vernar look like wilted knapweeds (by the feathery pappus), 19th is in my opinion hawkweed.

velkavrh9. 10. 2011 18:33:40

Lynx, thanks! Haven't come across such a large stand of knapweed yet.

otiv15. 10. 2011 15:18:18

Is this Alpine dandelion? no time to wait for it to make a seed head velik nasmeh

otiv15. 10. 2011 16:01:42

Three left, three right, these flowers are of summer days.....

Their blue has already been covered by snow with its whiteness....

Flowering blaze without smoke, winter will extinguish it.

anka 15. 10. 2011 20:18:05

Velkavrh, on the eighteenth photo there is a willowherb.

velkavrh19. 10. 2011 09:42:17

Anka, thanks! I delved into willowherbs and found out we have as many as sixteen species from marsh to narrow-leaved. In my case it's mountain willowherb-Epilobium montanum-Onagraceae.

arta3. 12. 2011 16:33:59

On Nov 30 we found a marmot pup 50 m below the bivouac under Skuta

velkavrh3. 03. 2012 14:56:45

Spring is awakening. Black hellebore hardly knows winter, as it already peeks out of the ground at the start of winter. Today on a walk to Čemšenik I almost missed the flowering.