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Which flower is this?

malenka20. 11. 2020 12:16:24

Alpine bluegrass (Poa alpina)

Type: Grasses
Family: grasses

Alpine meadowgrass (Poa alpina), Velika planina, Slovenia.

Alpine meadowgrass (Poa alpina), Mokrica, Slovenia.

Alpine meadowgrass (Poa alpina), Krvavec, Slovenia.

Alpine meadowgrass (Poa alpina), Gran Paradiso NP, Italy.

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velkavrh21. 11. 2020 08:24:45

I'd like to comment a little on malenka's flora presentations.

The alpine mountaineer is wonderful in autumn when its cushions turn red. Unfortunately I didn't have that opportunity this year.

I searched for the thistle a couple of years ago around Stahovice but didn't find it.

Two subspecies of thick-leaved thistle grow here. As I know they differ by leaves. I don't know the differences.

I don't know grasses and ferns.

The flower of the brook speedwell is something special. The name already says it likes moist habitat.

I know long-leaved scabious - we find it higher than the usual highland one and some others. Hoppe mentions even the woodland one - Knautia dipsacifolia in his handbook. I don't have access to Small Flora of Slovenia to check scabious here.

Short-haired pearlwort I don't know well. But I know mossy one well.

Narrow-leaved monkshood is our endemic of the Julian Alps. Malenka already taught us about monkshoods.

Alpine butterwort is also called celinka locally. They used it for wound healing.

About Lloydia Apolonija said a lot in 2015. He mentioned that there are about 20 species. Many grow in Asia. Only common Lloydia grows here. Lloydia is named in the handbook Botanical Path Črna Prst and also on Katričin ornamental garden forum.

Nice regards and stay healthy!

velkavrh22. 11. 2020 09:36:29

I checked my list of valerians which I copied from Small Flora of Slovenia. I noted that 12 species grow in Slovenia. According to Hoppe outside our homeland true valerian - Valeriana celtica also grows, which I don't see listed here. Hoppe has it under yellow flowers but from the picture it doesn't look yellow at all. According to Hoppe scree valerian - Valeriana saliunca also grows beyond our borders - it is as short as our dwarf valerian. I don't know half of the valerians. Meadow and woodland ones we'd probably find in valleys. Where the tuberous grows I don't know. Somehow at the start of mountain paths - say when going to Čemšenik - in Kokra village I see some white-growing valerian - whether it's elder-leaved I don't know - it always grows in shade on moist terrain.

Elongated valerian - Valeriana elongata. According to Hoppe, the true valerian also has such flowers.

Three-parted valerian - Valeriana tripteris

Medicinal valerian or baldrian - Valeriana officinalis - I even have it in my herb garden - brought from nature. It also grows near my home.

This is that valerian from Čemšnik - also three-parted valerian - determined by malenka.

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Majdag22. 11. 2020 10:00:17

Strange little flower like a sea star among grasses, photo: J. Medvešek. nasmeh

velkavrh22. 11. 2020 10:20:59

Majdag I think it's a fungus - called great stinkhorn - Anthurus archeri. I saw it this year too as well as similar common latticed stinkhorn - Clathrus ruber. Both fungi are really unusual and inedible. Three decades ago I delved into the mushroom world but after Chernobyl I quit mushrooming. Some memory of our mushroom riches remains though.

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Majdag22. 11. 2020 10:53:20

velkavrh,

malenka, thanks.. nasmeh

malenka22. 11. 2020 11:44:23

http://eprints.gozdis.si/1593/1/Pohleven_veliki_lovkar.pdf

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malenka22. 11. 2020 12:08:54

Velkavrh, the dioecious helleborine is a low plant that grows on marshy terrain. I don't know which species is on pictures 1 and 2, because the lower leaves are not visible; I have some doubts. On picture 3 it's already the mountain helleborine, on picture 16 the tripartite one. For the hill helleborine I don't know how you identified it, it's not quite easy; the stem is densely hairy (yours doesn't!) but otherwise it grows on dry slopes. The tuberous helleborine, which is otherwise similar to the dioecious one, grows on dry karst terrain (in Primorska, also on Cro. islands) and has a very rounded inflorescence, with tubers in the ground. The meadow, forest, and elder-leaved ones I also don't know.
In helleborines dioecy is common, meaning some plants have only male flowers with stamens, others only female plants with pistils, so they look different, almost like two different species.

velkavrh22. 11. 2020 12:54:11

I always see dioecious helleborine when going to Kamniški vrh from Ambrož - there grow large bellflowers - campanulas - I checked - but I don't have a good full plant. I photographed hill helleborine also on Kamniški vrh. I know it is similar to medicinal valerian in leaves. These two helleborines have only such leaves.

malenka23. 11. 2020 09:30:03

Braun's cinquefoil (Potentilla brauneana)

Species: Flower
Family: Rosaceae
Color: yellow

It is an alpine plant, only up to 5 cm high. It has small leaflets, 1-1.5 cm long, sparsely hairy on underside and margin, ternate. Stem rarely has more than one flower. Petals mostly longer than sepals.
On high mountain meadows and in snow hollows it blooms mid-summer, soon after the snow melts.
Present from Pyrenees to Eastern Alps and Karawanks.

Braun's cinquefoil (Potentilla brauneana), near Češka koča, Slovenia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 09:36:03

Mealy primrose (Primula farinosa)

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malenka23. 11. 2020 09:42:31

Spring primrose (Primula veris agg.)

Species: Flower
Family: Primulaceae
Color: yellow

The group of spring primroses has three subspecies in our region.

Spring cowslip (Primula veris agg.), Rateče-Tromeja, Slovenia.

Spring cowslip (Primula veris agg.), NP Pelister, Macedonia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 09:47:26

Striped daphne (Daphne striata)

Striated daphne (Daphne striata), Mrzva dolina pod Češko kočo, Slovenia.

Striated daphne (Daphne striata), planina Ovčarija, Slovenia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 09:56:09

Spring pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vernalis)

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malenka23. 11. 2020 09:59:22

Teratological buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus)

Hybrid buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus), Češka koča, Slovenia.

Hybrid buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus), Dovška vrata, Slovenia.

Hybrid buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus), Kokrsko sedlo, Slovenia.

Hybrid buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus), Mangartsko sedlo, Slovenia.

Hybrid buttercup (Ranunculus hybridus), Trenta, Slovenia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 10:04:04

Rock bramble (Rubus saxatilis)

Rock bramble (Rubus saxatilis), Velika planina, Slovenia.

Rock bramble (Rubus saxatilis), Prehodavci, Slovenia.

Rock bramble (Rubus saxatilis), Snežnik, Slovenia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 10:09:26

Clustered dock (Rumex conglomeratus)

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malenka23. 11. 2020 10:25:08

Blunt-leaved willow (Salix retusa)

Type: Shrubs
Family: willow family
Color: yellow

Dwarf, creeping shrublet with sprawling, gnarled shoots has small (1-3 cm), inversely ovate or lobed leaves, which are blunt at the top, glabrous, dark green. Male and female catkins are on different plants, are 2-3 times as long as wide.
Distributed above the forest line in the Pyrenees, Jura, Alps, Apennines, Prokletije.

Dwarf willow (Salix retusa), Kokrsko sedlo, Slovenia.

Dwarf willow (Salix retusa), Kalška gora, Slovenia.

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malenka23. 11. 2020 10:45:09

Thyme-leaved willow (Salix serpyllifolia)

Type: Shrubs
Family: willow family
Color: yellow

Dwarf, creeping shrublet with densely broom-like sprawling, cushion-like shoots has tiny (under 1 cm), ovate leaves. Male and female catkins on different plants, roundish, with only 2-8 flowers in each catkin.
Distributed on moist scree and rocks in the alpine belt mainly throughout the Alps.