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Which flower is this?

velkavrh3. 08. 2013 14:45:19

Today I'm still exploring yesterday's hike a bit.

I found out it's mountain houseleek - Sempervivum montanum - according to Hoppe.

I found out it's dusty mullein - Verbascum lychnitis - of the mulleins.

Flowers in cymose groups in tall, branched woolly corymbose inflorescence. Flowers yellow, staminal filaments curly hairy - according to Hoppe.

Gentians are my weak point - this is Gaudin's, recognized by gray leaves and lighter slightly bluish flower color. No other gentian has that color. Unfortunately the photo is poor.

Evergreen rockjasmine is abundant everywhere. It starts down below and we find it almost to the mountaintop.

I made a good study of the ivanščica flower.

Flower below, but the leaf photo failed me, as leaves easily confirm if it's truly alpine. They grew before the scree below Bavški Grintavec summit.

I found all the ušivci representatives I know - this is the July one. Also found the others - capitata, spicata, elongata, and fusiformis.

Long-leaved hawkweed, there's a lot of it - recognized by long pointed leaves.

I conclude this study with a bellflower, which is still my unexplored project - it has placed itself too much in the sun - probably Scheuchzer's.

velkavrh3. 08. 2013 16:56:43

I played around with small hawk's-beards.

I concluded it is alpine regrad - found on the bivouac tour - Kočna, Grintavec.

I can say with certainty that it is Kerner's dimek - recognized by the striped leaves.

This tall yellow rose similar to Austrian divjakovec in height. It has a full flower and characteristic leaves. I saw it last year on Črni prsti.

otiv3. 08. 2013 18:03:04

Brane, I looked in the Alpine flowers handbook and found a flower very similar to your hawk's-beard in picture 5, it's called Ločnikovolistni hawk's-beard. If I'm wrong, Apolonija will tell us nasmeh

Apolonija3. 08. 2013 18:09:32

Brane, I'm really glad you put so much effort and explained properties of many plants.
- by what do you judge it's hops saxifrage and not green? By the way, did you study the saxifrages you compared last time which I thought first was evergreen, second Hohenwart's saxifrage (Saxifraga hohenwartii)?
-hawk's-beards: for 5 I'd say most likely Pyrenean hawk's-beard /Crepis pyrenaica/. What do you say? Grows to 80cm.
-3 mountain hawkbit, mountain dandelion/Leontodon montanus/?
-4 possible that also here alpine dandelion, since leaves can vary from almost entire to pinnately lobed?? Lp

Apolonija3. 08. 2013 18:13:36

Vito, while I was writing you already posted your opinion and we both reached the same conclusion about 5. Then it must be correct nasmeh

Somewhere on the web I saw the naming lučnikovolistni, but correct seems with "O". Lp

otiv3. 08. 2013 18:25:06

That's how it's written in the handbook velik nasmeh

but the color bothers me for alpine dandelion, mine is darker than golden hawk's-beard.

Apolonija3. 08. 2013 18:31:56

Vito, if you type the Latin name Taraxacum alpinum, you get photos of that color too, in the booklet it's more golden-yellow. I don't know.

otiv3. 08. 2013 19:02:30

Already looked and figured out, that it's probably the print causing the darker colors. Colors in nature aren't always the same with flowers, hairy catchfly you see from light pink to almost dark red, also similar with pinks. nasmeh

velkavrh4. 08. 2013 05:17:53

Apolonija, good morning! Yes, I delved into my unlucky evergreen and homulic rockjasmine and finally realized how they differ. Indeed the evergreen is very common and non-experts often confuse them. With homulic the sepals are longer than petals, flowers are pale yellow and on stem one to three flowers. Howarth's, similar to homulic, is endemic to KSA and Karawanks and we won't meet it in Julian Alps. Found out that I saw homulic only on Turi-Špik in Italy. Indeed sepals were longer than petals. Unfortunately vacation ended and I'll impatiently wait for next weekend.

Apolonija4. 08. 2013 08:46:05

Good morning, Brane! But I thought you were such an active retiree with good fitness. nasmeh

We'll be shortchanged too, because fewer little flowers. Oh, counting on Vito. nasmeh

Otherwise soon weekend again and 15.8....Lp

velkavrh4. 08. 2013 09:55:05

Already on 10.08.2013 I'm going to Crna Prst to seek alpine gentian. I know where it grows and hope it will already be flowering, because I haven't seen it in the wild yet. Last year about this time I did the traverse Rodica-Crna Prst, so botanically it will be very interesting. For 16.08.2013 I'm planning, if the weather is good, Mangart from Tamar. They can invite me to Triglav. And niece from Scotland will be visiting and I'll take her to Triglav Lakes. Plans are actually too many. Unfortunately I must work two more years for deserved retirement. L.P.

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Apolonija4. 08. 2013 12:10:16

Alpine gentian will surely still be flowering then. I too will go to see it, but I'm waiting for it to cool a bit. You know it's used also for dry bouquets, because the stem with faded flowers dries itself. I see your garden gentians. Lp

Apolonija4. 08. 2013 12:11:58

On Mangart you can search for blue yarrow and alpine catchfly/creeping.../.

velkavrh4. 08. 2013 14:38:44

I know that due to different rock composition we find mountain flowers not elsewhere. Rumor has it only here white edelweiss, but I think too late for it. Mountain catchfly should be found, black wormwood (Artemisia genipi), silky hairy shiny wormwood (Artemisia nitida), naked-pod chickweed, Icelandic brooklime, spiked oat, viviparous fescue and maybe some other unseen flower this year. To it directly from Tamar.

Apolonija4. 08. 2013 16:36:46

I wish you all luck on the ascent and photographing.

velkavrh6. 08. 2013 19:12:22

Of course I couldn't hold out till Saturday. Already today after my shift I went to Zelenica, Spodnji Plot, Triangel.

Narrow-leaved ciprje - heat shows on it.

On the border path to Zelenica I find this marsh plant. It is broad-leaved. It should flower end of summer.

Mountain golden rozge is plentiful everywhere.

Zois's bellflowers on the top of Spodnji Plot.

Comparison of large-flowered and nettle-leaved bellflower.

I'm not sure which hawkweed this is. It should be Gaudin's hawkweed.

There are more cup gentians, this is the early gentian. When the gentian appears it is a sign that summer is already more than halfway over.

Highlight of the day - I find a large stand of Pannonian pasqueflower. I have also found individual plants in other places.

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Apolonija6. 08. 2013 20:08:32

Brane, wow! I see you know more and more plants. You distinguish green rockjasmine well from homulic and hairy trollius from rainy. I now often encounter marsh selfheal. I like this delicate flowerlet. Good comparison of both bellflowers, though I don't know the large-flowered one. Probably translates as Campanula glandiflora? Has larger flowers and less serrated leaves than the other?
Nice that you didn't hold out till the weekend. It's a positive addiction, obsession... nasmeh

velkavrh6. 08. 2013 21:50:59

But I have another riddle that I haven't solved.

Right at the top of Spodnji Plot I found this stand of that flower. It was the only one.

It reminds me of prerast. I know there are several. I know the rocky one.

Apolonija6. 08. 2013 22:44:42

I think it's probably right that it reminds you of thoroughwax. There are several - rocky, tall, golden... What do you say? Could it be golden?

velkavrh7. 08. 2013 06:00:13

The only golden thoroughwax - Bupleurum ranunculuides - I have in Hoppe's handbook, which I use quite a bit, although half the flowers are missing in it. It says the following - under each capitulum there are 5 yellow involucral bracts that extend beyond the edge of the capitulum, basal leaves long-petioled almost grass-like, up to 5 mm wide and up to 10 cm long. What bothered me is that the flower is more greenish overall and indeed the leaves are linear, thus similar to grass.