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Which flower is this?

velkavrh18. 11. 2020 06:32:36

I don't know exactly if I've ever presented my photographed docks. I know that alpine dock and Bohinj dock confuse me. Especially the alpine has two subspecies - locally. One subspecies is even cultivated in garden centers - called Caucasian dock. This is supposed to grow naturally on walls in Istria - data from Small Flora of Slovenia. According to Small Flora of Slovenia there are fourteen in Slovenia. Special is the bluish dock. Mr. Strgar from Bohinj has it in his picture collection. I never found it. But a few years ago on Velebit I saw their blue dock.

Aubrieta -Croatian: hrvatska tarčuka or hrvatski jastučak -Aubrieta columnae subsp.croatica

Endemic to Velebit -doesn't grow here. We have only cultivated-garden-determined by malenka.

Slender-fruited rockcress -Arabis turrita.

Alpine rockcress -Arabis alpina subsp. alpina

With this rockcress I get stuck in naming -according to Small Flora of Slovenia -low rockcress -Arabis bellidifolia.

According to Hoppe -transl. Mr. Lovka dwarf rockcress. We have two subspecies -on Snežnik the subspecies grows. I saw they call it star-haired rockcress.

These tall rockcresses I can't distinguish -this should be comb-like.

This one hairy -I don't know if the identification is correct.

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zlatica18. 11. 2020 06:43:08

malenka, when I looked at HN this time, I stared at the red bartsia. How surprised I was! I see your photos are from various places, so it must be quite widespread, but I see it here for the first time. Thanks for the discovery. I need to get some more info on this flower, when it blooms, what family it belongs to, as I couldn't decide by looks alone..it reminds me of field sage.. velik nasmeh

malenka18. 11. 2020 10:53:23

Zlatica, thanks. Toothwort is quite rare, even more overlooked because the flowers are small, of inconspicuous color, the plant can hide among other stems. It belongs to broomrapes.
Even rarer is yellow toothwort, which I myself haven't seen in Slovenia yet, although there are quite a few sites scattered across SLO in Materials for Atlas of SLO Flora.

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malenka18. 11. 2020 11:08:02

Velkavrh, docks really challenge us amateurs, many details need to be observed.
You don't have trouble only distinguishing within the species, but also determining the genus - the first two pictures aren't dock at all but Aubrieta.

Here aubrietia (Aubrieta) grows only cultivated on rock gardens.
Bluish dock grows here only high in the Julian Alps and never has such open flowers. According to GBIF it doesn't grow on the Balkans.

zlatica19. 11. 2020 08:52:00

Thanks, malenka, for the explanation.
So that I don't conclude quite without photos, here some botanical snapshots from yesterday's walk through the forest in my area. The fern - hart's tongue fern is very interesting to me, one of the few ferns I know. It actually has different outer from inner leaves with their functions. @malenka could surely tell more about it.
Greeting to all flower lovers. nasmeh

fern - hart's-tongue fern, which in this late autumn decorates the forest with its vivid green color

the underside of the leaf has a really nice pattern if you look closely

also the leaf of the bristlegrass (inner one), which usually has three; shaped differently from the outer ones and stands upright

moss, type of sphagnum (identified: malenka); soft, pleasant to the touch

and another one, colored by the sun, eagle fern

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:17:45

Yes, zlatica, ferns also deserve our attention, they are beautiful, as are mosses.
Lots of learning awaits us to recognize as many as possible. LP

malenka20. 11. 2020 11:18:29

Alpine bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina)

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:24:34

Fissured spleenwort (Asplenium fissum)

Type: Fern
Family: spleenwort family
Color: green

Forked spleenwort (Asplenium fissum), below Kokrsko sedlo, Slovenia.

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:32:23

Linnaean spiny drypis (Drypis spinosa)

Type: Flower
Family: pink family
Color: white

It is a perennial with cushion-like spreading stems and spiny leaves. Grows on screes or gravel in montane belt.
With us grows subspecies subsp. jacquiniana (Jacquin's spiny drypis). Flowers in summer white or pink.

Linneaus' drypis (Drypis spinosa subsp. jacquiniana), Stahovica, Slovenia.

Linneaus' drypis (Drypis spinosa subsp. jacquiniana), Čaven, Slovenia.

Linneaus' drypis (Drypis spinosa), island of Krk, Croatia.

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:35:19

Stiff clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum)

Stiff clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum), Storžič, Slovenia.

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:39:22

Thick-leaved thistle (Carduus crassifolius)

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:42:55

Firm sedge (Carex firma)

Type: Grasses
Family: sedge family
Color: brown

Common species of low, cushion-spreading sedge on alpine meadows and rocky ground.

Firm sedge (Carex firma), Dovška vrata, Slovenia.

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:50:24

Villari's woodfern (Dryopteris villarii)

Type: Fern
Family: woodfern family
Color: green

20-45 cm tall woodfern is densely glandular-hairy. Grows on moist screes and in rock fissures in subalpine and alpine belt.

Villar's woodfern (Dryopteris villarii), Kanin, Slovenia.

Villar's woodfern (Dryopteris villarii), Kokrsko sedlo, Slovenia.

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malenka20. 11. 2020 11:59:05

Carniolan fescue (Festuca spectabilis subsp. carniolica)

Type: Grasses
Family: grass family
Color: yellow

About 50 cm tall grass grows in tussocks on stabilised gravel and screes on sunny slopes in colline (hilly) and montane (mountain) belt. Classic sites are Nanos and Čaven.