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| malenka28. 08. 2020 15:34:07 |
Alpine clover (Trifolium alpinum) is up to 20 cm high, glabrous plant which has only basal very long (up to 10 cm) narrow trifoliate leaves. Flowers are in long-pedunculate capituliform inflorescences, each flower has short pedicel. Grows shrubby sprawling on high-montane acidic pastures, 1500-3100 m high. Does not grow in Limestone Alps, so also not in Slovenia.
Photos taken in NW Italy and Switzerland.
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| zvončica28. 08. 2020 21:57:03 |
A bit late, but better late than never:
Zlatica, your photos of transformed rockcress are beautiful. This rockcress is really something special.
Darinka, your bouquet of edelweiss from Prevala is wonderful.
And, malenka, with contributions about bluish fescue and alpine clover you really spiced up these pages and I'm convinced, hope I'm not mistaken, you'll delight us with some more. 
LP
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| malenka29. 08. 2020 15:09:12 |
Alpine stonecrop (Sedum alpestre) is up to 8 cm tall, a glabrous plant which also develops densely leafy sterile shoots at flowering. Leaves are fleshy, round in cross-section. Flowers have 5 petals up to twice as long as sepals and blunt (not pointed as those of hexagonal stonecrop). Flowers from June to September in snow hollows on rocks and scree in limestone-poor areas, mainly on silicate. Distributed in central and southern European mountains, 1300-2400 m. Grows also in Slovenia but not common.
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| zvončica29. 08. 2020 21:12:14 |
On the path to Cicelj, hill just over 800 m, near Ljubljana - here one can't expect to find some special flower. In the lower part the whole forest edge was overgrown with glandular balsam, a very invasive species. Dense stands of glandular balsam prevent growth of native plant species. The summit ridge though was covered with cyclamens so that the air smelled intoxicatingly.
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| zlatica30. 08. 2020 07:35:36 |
The colors of balsam and cyclamen are quite similar, with the difference that at the sight of cyclamens I rejoice, at the sight of balsam I sadden , since it's invasive, as you say, Zvončica. Bees visit it willingly though, that's the only merit I give them.
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| zvončica30. 08. 2020 07:52:55 |
True, Zlatica, due to its melliferousness beekeepers spread balsam too. LP
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| malenka1. 09. 2020 09:40:28 |
Alpine onion (Chamorchis alpina), photos from Peča, Mangart Saddle and Kanin.
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| malenka1. 09. 2020 10:25:22 |
Alpine buttercup (Ranunculus alpestris) is low, glabrous white-flowered buttercup with shiny basal, 3-5-lobed leaves; lobes are divided one to two thirds deeply and broad. The base of the leaf blade is truncate or cordate.
Grows in subalpine and alpine belt of European mountains, flowers from May to August.
In our area not common, grows in eastern Karawanks, e.g. on Uršlja gora, more frequent in other parts of Alps where no limestone.
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| malenka2. 09. 2020 11:20:59 |
Alpine betony (Stachys alpina) is an erect member of the Lamiaceae family that can exceed 1 meter in height. It is a herbaceous perennial. Has petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, crenate-edged leaves that are sparsely to moderately hairy, and the stem has glandular hairs. In the upper part of the stem, flowers are arranged in whorls, pink to dark red. They have bracts longer than flowers.
Grows in forests, clearings, scree and rocky shrubby slopes in montane and subalpine belt throughout Slovenia, but not very common. Flowers in July and August. Present elsewhere in Europe in temperate climate zone.
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| malenka2. 09. 2020 16:24:01 |
Alpine moon-daisy (Leucanthemopsis alpina)
Description: Small, tufted, basal plant with numerous ascending flower stems, each rising from a basal rosette of oblong or lanceolate leaves, which are pinnatisect or divided into 2-4 parts, depending on subspecies (from oblong palmate-toothed to palmate-lobed shape); slightly cushion-convex. Stem leaves alternate, short and entire. At the top of flower stem one capitulum, 2-4 cm wide, with flat inflorescence enveloped by numerous overlapping involucral bracts. Flat inflorescence consists of yellow tubular florets; outer ligulate florets, white or occasionally pink, 15 to 30, 8-12 mm long, with small teeth at tip.
Several subspecies exist.
Size: 5-15 cm
Flowering period: July - August
Ecology and distribution: scree of lower slopes, moraines, stabilised screes, rocks, cliffs and dry grassy pastures, on siliceous ground, 1800 to 3900 m.
Very common in Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines and Carpathians, Corsica and mountains of central-western Balkan peninsula.
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| malenka3. 09. 2020 12:39:00 |
Alpine willow (Salix alpina)
Description: Low shrub (to 30 cm), branches appressed to ground. Leaves green and shiny on both sides, petiole 1-4 mm long; leaf margin not revolute, apex acute or obtuse, edges densely to sparsely hairy and branched.
Catkins at top of shoots, 2-3 times as long as wide, 3-5 cm long. Capsules distinctly pedunculate, densely hairy; covering scale at least red at base, dry black. Male catkins have two stamens per flower, otherwise one nectary. Many flowers per catkin (more than 12).
Grows on wet scree and swards of subalpine and alpine belt - above tree line, up to 2500 m. Distributed in Eastern Alps, Carpathians and Tatra.
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| zlatica3. 09. 2020 14:02:47 |
This alpine moon-daisy probably can't be found here? Its leaves in your photos seem quite fleshy to me, like from some houseleek. Shape reminds me a bit of Kamnik daisy. Seems really special.
Alpine willow is very beautiful. Haven't met these on my paths yet, or passed some that already flowered out and didn't catch attention. On Mangart Saddle it could probably be, right?
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| malenka3. 09. 2020 21:35:42 |
Zlatica, alpine moon-daisy is just translation of flower name that doesn't grow here. There was debate in Flowers section. Unfortunately we don't have high enough siliceous or granite mountains, and they don't like limestone.
Yes, you guessed right, alpine willow grows on Mangart Saddle and elsewhere. That photo with male catkins taken on Zelenica or just below it.
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| tulipan4. 09. 2020 07:00:06 |
Brane, Naborjet Mountains
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| zlatica4. 09. 2020 07:49:39 |
Brane, many are still blooming. Picture 10, bushy bellflower, you probably thought of scree willowherb, and gave that name to the bellflower too.
Regarding photographing with the phone, I advise you not to bring the phone so close, because then the picture is blurry. Otherwise pictures with the phone can be very nice too. Anyway, watch the distance, focus the object by touching the screen and it'll be.. lp
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| malenka4. 09. 2020 09:47:47 |
Velkavrh, goldenrod is common/healing, broomrape probably Kranj one. Picture 21 is common woodland angelica, Angelica sylvestris (leaves aren't sharp, but differ well from those on picture 22, which are really from broad-leaved arnica, since they are pointed).
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| malenka4. 09. 2020 09:49:21 |
Reseda-leaved bittercress (Cardamine resedifolia)
Description: Only a few cm tall crucifer, with leaves similar in shape to mignonette (Reseda). Has tiny white flowers. Fruits are 12-22 mm long, narrow pods. The key says its stem leaves have auricles at base, lower leaves are entire. But since it's so small, easily distinguished from other bittercresses. Especially, as it grows only on andesite (volcanic rock), making it extremely rare here: found only on Komna (Smrekovec). Otherwise scattered in most European mountains, subalpine and alpine belt.
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