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Which flower is this?

velkavrh17. 09. 2013 05:30:03

Apolonija, you're right. It's a globeflower or trollius. I went through a bit too quickly. Otherwise, I'll devote myself to precise determinations of globeflowers next season, because I can't distinguish all three species.

velkavrh17. 09. 2013 05:51:48

On 25.06.2013 I did a hike from Stari Ljubelj over the ridge of Ljubeljščica and from that hike and from the walk to Spodnji Plot on 06.08.2013 a couple more flowers. I found, as I wrote at the last picture, 209 mountain flowers, among them some shrub, tree, and also lingonberry. I reviewed Zelenica with ski slope, Stari Ljubelj with ridge Ljubeljčica, Zg. and Sp. Plot with Triangle, Vrtača, Planina Prevalo with Begunjščica and surroundings of the hut at the source of Završnica. I was on rounds seven times—03.05., 03.06., 25.06., 04.07., 22.07., 06.08., 07.09.; Now I know that I took too large an area for reviewing and that you need to go for reviews every other week the whole growing season.

Orchids are my still unexplored project and I certainly can't distinguish them yet. This should be the spotted marsh orchid - Dactylorhiza maculata - at least according to the Alpine Flora. This handbook assigns us 15 species.

This one is the early purple orchid - Orchis mascula subsp. mascula. The handbook also lists them under Traunsteiner globosa - common clustered orchid.

Nagnoj - there is common, alpine and Alschinger's. The common one is not confirmed here, but they are very similar - this one will be alpine.

Many-flowered foxglove. There is also a yellow one.

Meadow goat's beard - Tragopogon pratensis subsp. orientalis. Unconfirmed but the porovolistna - pink-tinged and large - should also grow here according to the Alpine Flora.

Many-headed suholetnica. There is also single-headed - white - I have never seen it. With our neighbors there is also alpine - has more flowers on the stem. Border area flowers always grow here too, but the sites are not always confirmed.

Alpine stonecrop. We also have several species of stonecrop here - blue, black, woolly-leaved;

On the ridge of Ljubeljščica I found this popon.

I also found this yellowish one at that time - it could be common svinjak -Hypochaeris radicata or one-headed -H. uniflora.

Alpine goldenrod is already from Spodnji Plot.

Forest or Fuchs' grint, that's the question now - they are very similar. We find the forest one on all mountain paths through the forest, the Fuchs' one on pastures.

This one is from the last one from Krvavec from the pasture under the TV tower, so it will be like this one and from Zelenica Fuchs'.

For hawkweeds except rare ones I am never sure which one it is - whether common or not, I don't know.

Mother's thyme - I will add the last trip to Begunjščica.

True lakota I see all season, but I have never published it under Zelenica.

Gerard's črvinka - it's true that with these little whites I'm not at home - črvinke, popkorse, peščenke look very similar to me at first glance. Precise identification will be needed.

Alpine stonecrop Sedum alpestre - found on screes of Begunjščica. Sharp, hexagonal, not bent, because this species has different leaves.

Even closer this stonecrop. I reviewed everything from Zelenica - found or published a total of 209 blooming mountain flowers.

Apolonija17. 09. 2013 09:10:49

Gentians? Woolly has compact, clustered inflorescence and this one in the picture doesn't. Common gentian doesn't have violet hairy anthers. Could be Austrian or black. Both are similar with the difference that basal leaves of black gentian are heart-shaped at the base, Austrian not. Another reason it's good to photograph the whole plant. nasmeh

With hawkweed you swapped Latin names. I think common /H.radicata/ is not.

Nevertheless I think you made a mistake and it's not mountain hawkweed, but sharp. Petals are much longer than sepals...

velkavrh17. 09. 2013 10:37:59

I also made an inventory for the Krvavec area. Collected 159 mountain flowers on six hikes. One hike very rich in mountain flowers but I haven't managed to do yet—a half-day one: planina Koren, planina Košutna, Košutna, Kompotela, Mokrica. This year confirmed also "ovit", who did this hike and photographed really a huge number of mountain flowers. Maybe only poor regarding stonecresses. I was here six times—27.04., 21.05., 18.06., 03.07., 24.07., and 27.08. Reviewed planina Jezerce, planina Dolge njive, Kriška planina, Kržišče, Krvavec, Veliki Zvoh, greben Ježa, Vrh Korena, Kalce, entire Kalški greben, Kalško gora. Most surprised me here finding pink viper's bugloss on top of Veliki Zvoh. This year everywhere surprisingly many Kamnik speedwell and fewer stonecresses. Leaves of cow parsnip I didn't find here. Resasti sviščevec also not seen here yet, it blooms last, so no worry I won't find it on autumn hike.

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velkavrh18. 09. 2013 10:51:59

So let's look at our clovers a bit. All photographed this year. Entered all, but pictures nowhere. I'll repeat tomorrow.

Colorful marsh clover I also find in the lowlands.

Hare's common clover is at home in the forest.

Scarlet-red clover - I find it also in the nearby forest - otherwise it is the queen among clovers.

Common Turkish clover - this I found only in Italy on Pekol pasture.

Pale clover - Trifolium pallescens - this is already a real mountain clover - found on Velo polje pasture below Vodnikov dom.

Certainly the find of chestnut-brown clover which I found this year on Mangart deserves top spot.

This clover I found on Prehodavcih - according to literature it could be Thal's which changes color on fading from white to reddish. Very similar to creeping.

This was found on Vogel at approx. 1800 m. Similar to Italian and creeping. Italian has no confirmed site here but native with neighbours.

19.09.2013 - black clover photographed today on home meadow - leaves have those whitish spots.

Creeping clover - Trifolium repens subsp. repens

Alfalfa is cultivated clover which escapes into nature and we see it everywhere in valleys.

miri18. 09. 2013 21:44:46

Click on "pictures" and upload.

velkavrh21. 09. 2013 18:19:00

Today from the hike to Kukova špica still a couple of this year's flowers - more of the later ones..

In the forest is the prince candlestick.

In the mid-mountains the shaggy clubmoss is at home.

In the scree both thistles are still blooming - this one is thick-leaved.

This one is alpine - we distinguish by the leaves. Alpine has spiny ones.

The clasping-leaved hawkweed still blooms abundantly.

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Apolonija21. 09. 2013 19:41:27

Fewer flowers, fewer pictures? I didn't know that the candle gentian /G. asclepiadea/ is also called pigweed. lp

velkavrh21. 09. 2013 19:50:37

My mistake printing for candle gentian. Above 2200m nothing grows anymore. Mountain pastures are nicely green but no flowers anymore. Forest smells of cyclamens. Lingonberries ripening too. One more week to full ripeness.

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velkavrh22. 09. 2013 10:42:52

This morning I focused on saxifrages. According to Flora alpina 25 species grow here. 13 are borderline ones. That means their sites touch ours and can be found here in border areas, just not confirmed. I've been searching for saxifrages for 3 years. Far from having found all growing here, nor do I recognize all. I know well Host's, lance-leaved, round-leaved, encrusted, starry, now also Humulus-leaved and evergreen. This year I first found opposite-leaved. I should know how to separate bluish-green and moss-like one i.e. tufted. Burser's I saw only last year on Storžič, not this year. Shouldn't have trouble with clustered which has green rosettes with quite round leaves with jagged lime edge. Carniolan I find often - this year on Mangart too. Hohenwart's probably seen but mistaken for Humulus-leaved or evergreen as very similar. Here my knowledge/recognition ends.

This year I found opposite-leaved saxifrage-Saxifraga oppositifolia subsp. oppositifolia-for the first time on Temen (peak next to Kanjavec) and on Veliki Špičje.

This solitary flower is from Veliki Špičje.

Wedge-leaved saxifrage is fairly common from spring to mid-summer in the forest when we walk to the scrub line. It likes shade and moisture, often grows on damp rocks. Due to poor light, the photos are also poorer.

Wedge-leaved saxifrage-Saxifraga cuneifolia.

Round-leaved saxifrage-Saxifraga rotundifolia. This grows on the ground. It likes moisture and shade, it is also common near mountain springs.

The flowers of round-leaved saxifrage are sprinkled with tiny dots.

For me one of the most beautiful is starry saxifrage-Saxifraga stellaris. It is not the most common.

Bluish-green saxifrage - Saxifraga caesia - recognizable by its bluish-green rosettes.

It is quite common - yesterday I found it on the path to Kukova špica.

Let's look at the vivid-green saxifrage, which also colors red like this - due to pollination.

For the first time I found one colored like this recently under Križ on the hike to Dolkovo špica.

Usually it is colored like this - Saxifraga aizoides.

Mostly it is this light-colored. But actually it is the most common.

Host's saxifrage. It is somehow the highest with beautiful dotted flowers.

Host's saxifrage - Saxifraga hostii subsp. rhaetica.

This is homulični kamnokreč - Saxifraga sedoides. We recognize it because it has sepals larger than petals - those are the upper ones, which is well visible in the picture.

Next is the rough saxifrage -Saxifraga squarrosa-, which is not hard to recognize because the mossy rosette leaves are hard to the touch.

Rough saxifrage next to the evergreen one.

Crustal saxifrage is actually the most common and easily recognized by the rosette leaves, which are limy-coated.

These rosettes on crustal saxifrage look like this.

With saxifrages, you need to know the leaves well - mainly the characteristic rosettes - clustered saxifrage.

This clustered one -Saxifraga paniculata- I found this year on Veliki Špič.

I found out that it is a saxifrage that does not grow here. It was found last year on Montáž -Saxifraga exarata subsp. pseudoexarata- so it is a subspecies of musk. It should be recognized by the petals.

Carniolan saxifrage -Saxifraga exarata subsp. carniolica- is a subspecies of the rugose one.

I found this one this year right below the summit of Mangart.

At the end of August this year I also found it on Rinke.

Rugose or musk saxifrage -Saxifraga exarata subsp. moschata- we recognize by the characteristic flowers. Three subspecies grow here - musk, Carniolan and black-finned.

Stemless saxifrage-Saxifraga aphylla-found on Mangart. Haven't found these yet-burser's, rough, armoured, changed, granular, black-scarlet, rock, unusual, hohenwart's.

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mirjam6722. 09. 2013 19:10:37

Some flowers from the coastal end. If only I could send you the scent of cyclamen too! I smelled them before I saw them.

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Apolonija22. 09. 2013 19:50:20

Definitely a Michaelmas daisy, probably the mountain one - Aster amellus

velkavrh22. 09. 2013 19:54:31

No. 5 is definitely an aster. Probably Virginia (group), but could be mountain one. Both have from stem leaf axils short stem with one flower which this obviously lacks, it has quite broad leaves too. Garden asters often go wild.

otiv24. 09. 2013 13:03:45

Autumn has arrived,
frost has killed many already,
but still some flower is found,
to gladden our hearts. nasmeh

In such a beautiful place I haven't seen nettles yet

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Apolonija24. 09. 2013 16:16:14

vito, nice flowers again with poetic accompaniment. Where were you? Don't you know which marmot? Look at its belly! nasmeh

otiv24. 09. 2013 17:15:00

Apolonija, thanks! Don't the mountains attract you at all to peek at Current conditions and it'd be clear to you that I was on Tosca. nasmeh

velkavrh24. 09. 2013 17:27:01

otiv, under no. 22 thistle. We have two with such nice flowers blooming now. If it has spiny leaves it's alpine, else thick-leaved.

otiv24. 09. 2013 17:42:25

Brane, thanks!
Already fixing it so I don't learn wrong. nasmeh

Nice regards!

Apolonija25. 09. 2013 08:57:45

Vito, currently can't peer around mountains, only hills nasmeh

Osat-thistle? Alpine thistle might be confused only with Pannonic thistle, as it also has just one head at the end of bare stem. But thistle has much spinnier involucral leaves, thistle barely noticeable. Will you remember? nasmeh