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zvončica8. 09. 2020 23:01:30

Marsh grass-of-Parnassus

Of course you're right, malenka. Mala flora Slovenije is the botanical bible. But so many times I've seen marsh grass-of-Parnassus elsewhere, including in the translation of Lippert's booklet Alpine flowers (Tone Wraber), even Peter Strgar wrote marsh under the 2007 photo, not to mention more, so I concluded both names can be used. And it's really not hard to mistake - marsh/marshy. Well, from today on only marsh grass-of-Parnassus nasmeh

. This delicate flower got its scientific name from ancient Greece after Mount Parnassus. Best regards

malenka9. 09. 2020 11:03:14

Mountain sorrel (Oxyria digyna)

malenka9. 09. 2020 11:13:00

Zvončica

T. Wraber probably just reviewed Milan Lovka's translation, otherwise even in his books he doesn't stick 100% to Mala flora - but eminences can afford that zmeden

Peter is like me just an active enthusiast, not a professional.

Best regards

malenka9. 09. 2020 11:24:39

Dwarf gentian (Gentiana pumila)

It is a low, growing in small dwarf pines perennial, up to 6 cm tall. Basal leaves are linear-lanceolate (narrow!), papillose on the margin, pointed. Stem has 1-3 pairs of small narrow leaves. Calyx teeth are linear-lanceolate, pointed, corolla is tubular-funnelform, up to 30 mm long, has a long tube, the spreading lobes are dark blue. Corolla tube is a bit darker (MFS states lighter). Grows on snowbeds where snow has recently melted – in mountains this is usually mid-summer (mostly above timberline blooming gentians we will see from July to September) and specifically on limestone substrate.
Localities in Eastern Alps, rarely in Apennines. In our country it grows in Julian Alps, rarer in Karawanks and Kamnik-Savinja Alps.
Similar species is spring gentian, which has ovate leaves (wider) and grows also below timberline.

malenka9. 09. 2020 11:26:27

Pale clover (Trifolium pallescens)

kati19099. 09. 2020 20:51:58

Hello "malenka"; your contributions are interesting and instructive. Since I'm a bit in doubt, I ask for help; the gentians are photographed one under Urška, the other on Dlesk plateau, Thanks

malenka10. 09. 2020 09:16:42

kati1909, the first is spring gentian, for the second the leaves are not visible well enough. If narrow, it's dwarf gentian.
In mountains we can see spring one also late summer, otherwise gentians like to rebloom later, in autumn.

Best regards

p.s. Otherwise for plant determination often important is altitude and time, substrate (limestone/silicate) ...
The name 'under Urška' tells me nothing.

malenka10. 09. 2020 09:24:47

At the potbellied one you only look at the calyx, but it is usually taller, branched and flowers are smaller than at the spring gentian.

malenka10. 09. 2020 21:29:09

Green alder (Alnus viridis)

malenka10. 09. 2020 21:32:04

Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)

malenka10. 09. 2020 21:40:05

Golden-veined bupleurum (Bupleurum ranunculoides)

Golden bupleurum (Bupleurum ranunculoides), Nanos, Slovenia.

Golden bupleurum (Bupleurum ranunculoides), Col d'Izoard, France.

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malenka10. 09. 2020 21:43:10

Spiked bellflower (Campanula spicata)

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velkavrh13. 09. 2020 08:13:44

This will be pretty much the last report this year about mountain flowers. I was in the High Tauern in Austria on the three-thousander Brennkogel. The flowers are mainly in the last stage of blooming, many are a bit flattened by recent snowfall. More summery flowers have already wilted. Still, I photographed quite an extensive collection—mainly because I am usually second-to-last in the hikers' column, if I'm not leading the tour. All photos taken from 2600m to 3000m altitude.

At the starting point I spotted quite a large patch of hairy hawkweed.

It was already around nine in the morning and the flowers of the bearded gentian began to open, which we meet first.

We walked for one hour across steep pastures along this mountain road to the tunnel. This is mountain clover - identified by malenka.

These are the leaves of this yarrow. Higher up, the blackish yarrow and alpine wormwood are still blooming.

Thorny thistle. Besides the thorny thistle there were even more representatives of knapweeds as well as thistles.

Chestnut-brown clover. There was also some other among the clovers - this one is really something special.

In the blobelih along the path uphill to the tunnel there are extensive stands of this beauty.

Some fragrant kobulnica, this is the common azdravilka - identified by malenka.

From here onwards the flowers from the tunnel from height 2600m to 3000m. This is the pot-bellied svišč - identified by malenka.

Prostrate svišč - Gentiana prostrata - identified by malenka.

At height 2700m the cup-shaped sviščevec starts to appear. It was low - the flowers are squeezed into those beautiful tufts.

We see a sea of little lights from the bloomed mountain sretene.

Higher up we encounter hairy creeping sretene.

There were extensive stands of pot-bellied bellflowers. I found also the bearded one and Scheuchzer's.

This will be some other suholetnica - this is the single-capsule suholetnica - identified by malenka.

There were many of them - Veronica alpina.

Alpine bellflower - determined by malenka. I didn't see the leaves - otherwise I know it.

Some pink at an altitude of 2900m. It should be the glacial pink - Dianthus glacialis - at least according to the literature I have. It says that it is rare.

What it is I don't know. These rosettes look like they are from alpine rock-cress. They are not leaves of alpine rock-cress - said malenka.

Dark-leaved rampion - Phyteuma globularifolium - determined by malenka. I was suspicious - it was a bit crumpled from recent snow.

Two representatives of popkores, peščenks or črvinks follow.

Now it's the turn of rock-cresses - that clustered one has already finished flowering. Similarly the hard cushions of tufted rock-cress were already flowerless.

There is still plenty of evergreen rock-cress.

Clustered rock-cress - determined by malenka. I overlooked its characteristic rosettes. It grew almost to 3000m in a rock fissure - it really surprised me.

Last flowers of starry rock-cress. Nearby are leaves of snow buttercup.

Now it's the turn of the rock-cress of which there was the most all the way from 2700m to 3000m.

By the leaves one would classify it among the furrowed rock-cresses.

And finally I present a flower that I rarely see - this is Carinthian lomatogonium - Lomatogonium carinthiacum. I have already seen it in Italy in the valley of Beli potok.

I almost forgot the edelweiss, of which there were huge numbers right up to 3000m.

They grow on scree and talus - single-flowered chickweed - Cerastium uniflorum - determined by malenka.

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zvončica14. 09. 2020 03:09:53

Today along the path to Viševnik. Days are coming when we will rejoice at every little flower.

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velkavrh14. 09. 2020 06:53:51

zvončica, already malenka pointed out that we cannot accurately identify the hawkweed species just by the flower. Characteristic of shiny hawkweed is that basal leaves are pinnate, between individual flowers (petals) it has black calyx bristles. The upper side of flatly spread leaves is shiny. Another characteristic is-marginal petals are enlarged in a 2-4cm wide head.

This one could also just be common grintavec - said the little one.

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zvončica14. 09. 2020 11:23:34

velkavrh, thanks for the explanation. I still think my hawkweed is also shiny, just fully open and black calyx bristles no longer visible, your hawkweed is just opening and black calyx bristles really nicely visible. Basal leaves are pinnate too. Marginal petals are larger than others too. Best

Your flower collection from High Tauern is really rich in number of flowers. I kinda envy your numerous trips abroad this year, really just a bit wink

, but happy for you that you could realize them.

velkavrh14. 09. 2020 13:32:10

Almost all summer months I almost completely skipped due to two illnesses and covid of course. And next year I plan to buy a new camera - then pictures will be like those our ovit takes. L.P. That I catch so many flowers on tours is result of me usually being last or second-last in the column. For abroad I have trouble identifying flowers that don't grow here. Mostly I help myself with the Flora Alpina handbook - and our botanists help me - thanks to them. Won't list them.

otiv14. 09. 2020 16:32:13

Branko next time write as Vito, since half the world knows me under that name. winking

I don't have any special camera either, only the approach to flower photography must be right and you definitely need to take time for it and I do. Conquered summits are no longer important to me as in the past, I experience happiness already on the path along blooming carpets, only currently there aren't many little flowers in the mountains. Yesterday I was at Kamniško sedlo and still found some little flowers, which I'm attaching.

Let me also greet the new botanical power @malenka among us and personally thank her for all her work she invests in the professionalism of our Flowers forum and of course for her contributions that will teach us a lot.
Nice regards to all. smile

Large-flowered primroses...they grow only on Kamniško sedlo...ha ha

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kati190914. 09. 2020 20:54:13

Vito; I completely identify with your words in the 1st paragraph. I too, a few years ago, put the gray rocky summits "on the sidetrack" and now enthusiastically walk paths surrounded by beautiful mountain flowers. These paths fill me with incredible energy, and give my heart an impulse that revives me. Yes, I'm happy and my eyes are full of joy.
Branko; as Vito said; it's not all about the camera. The right time, nice view and steady hand mean more. I wish you many beautiful shots!
Malenka; we "Carinthians" call Uršlja gora "uršla".