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velkavrh15. 05. 2014 20:38:53

B.C. - There are cypress spurges as many as you want. But I have one that you probably haven't seen yet. The Latin name for spurges is Euphorbia. In Slovenia, 37 of them grow in the wild according to available literature.

This is my spurge. I'll look up its name. Of course, we won't find it in nature—at least not around here. It's the shiny spurge—of course, cultivated. It's endangered here—vulnerable species.

Already around home we find lots of other spurges—this is the warty one.

For the Carniolan spurge, one has to try harder—it likes shade and moisture.

This is also a spurge—we consider it a weed—supposedly it repels voles. It's the cross-leaved one.

Bloody spurge - unfortunately belongs to the poppies, although it is called spurge.

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B.C.15. 05. 2014 21:45:04

Velkavrh, that spurge of yours is nice. I really like spurges, it's really nice to see their patches under Vremščica. Some time ago I photographed spurge near Škocjan Caves, and an older local woman wondered why I'm photographing that weed.

Shining spurge grows at Lake Cerknica, where I've been going for eternity. I'll probably miss the summer bellflowers again, they say they're already departing.

velkavrh16. 05. 2014 05:51:48

I haven't seen summer bellflowers in the wild yet. But a few years ago I had some English variety of bellflowers - it was fully double-flowered - of course cultivated, but it disappeared on me.

Apolonija16. 05. 2014 08:17:07

Spurges shine wonderfully. The summer bellflower has indeed almost finished blooming.

Bloody spurge, as we call it, and some use it to remove warts, but in reality it's not a spurge (Euphorbia), but belongs to the poppies.

The spurge at 7 can hardly be the serrated-leaved one, Brane. Look at the leaf edges, which are completely smooth. I think it could be Euphorbia peplus, garden spurge. Nice day to all! There's still a storm here.

otiv16. 05. 2014 14:51:08

Summer bellflower from the flowerbed,
where other flowers keep it company. nasmeh

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velkavrh17. 05. 2014 17:40:53

Today on Črna prst from the west from the village Kal. To the top it takes about two to three hours. Almost two hours we walk through the forest - I found lots of blooming flowers. When we reach the open pastures, the real mountain flowers begin. On the top and below only monkshood and edelweiss in buds.

As soon as we leave the village Kal, pastures full of flowers - common hawkweed. I always try it. It wasn't bitter.

Already blooming bearded pink - locally Turkish carnation.

Among the grass I spot common lady's mantle - Alchemilla vulgaris - belongs to the rose family.

Along the path in tall grass, the caudate thistle really stands out.

I spot the mountain hawkweed too. Triumfett's is very similar in color. Easiest to distinguish by the fringes of the involucre leaves—here brownish, on the mountain one black.

Along the path there is plenty of common lady's mantle.

The true globeflower is already almost over here.

On the slope above the road there is plenty of hairy rock-rose.

We walk through the forest for almost two hours - the forest is full of flowers - forest starflower.

Hairy goldenrod. We recognize it by the hairy stems - Grows in shade - likes moisture.

Oval-leaved fly orchid - from the orchid family. We find it also in valley forests - it is common.

Forest forget-me-nots - They grow everywhere, not only in airy forests. In spring they are plentiful on unfertilized meadows. We simply call them forget-me-nots.

Smrdljivčka - there were no other flowers from the genus krvomočnic.

Trilistna špajka - there were no other representatives of špajke.

Mandljevolistni mleček. I saw more mlečki, including the cypress one among others, which is the most common.

I find another type of kosteničevje. This is planinsko kosteničevje. It has an interesting red flower.

The forest is full of klinolistni kamnokreč. It grows in the shade of our deciduous forests - it does not grow in valley forests. It is common. It grows in the shade. I even found it in the canyon of the Kokra river.

On some rocky outcrop I spot skorjasti kamnokreč flowering for the first time this year. On the rocky plateau I see only its crusty limestone characteristic rosettes.

Among the rocks I also spot marjetično nebino. Higher up it is not yet - it is common. We confuse it with common marjeticami.

After about two hours I reach the plateau. The pastures of Črna prst begin—I spot podkvica by the path.

Julijski lan—you can see that it snowed here a few days ago, scorched and flattened the already blooming rožice.

Izrodna zlatica—it has characteristic leaves—we cannot mix it with other zlaticas.

Smiljka—the species is hard to determine.

Probably Crantzev petoprstnik, the golden one has an orange spot at the base of the flower. It could be velecvetni—Potentilla grandiflora, which also has such large flowers.

For clusijev svišč there was too little sun to open the flowers.

When I step out of the forest, under the path I spot a blooming meadow of zlatih pogačic.

In between, alpski kosmatinec proudly raises its white head.

Kobulasta veternica competes with kosmatinec for attention.

On the rocks above the path this rivalry is observed by avrikelj.

We usually miss the flowering of avriklja on Črna prst.

Below the summit there was frost. The frost shows strongly on Vanež. In two weeks it will bloom.

On the edge under the koča, where nothing blooms except nunka.

This one is pure white—no sun, so the flowers are not open.

Just below the koča avrikelj will bloom in all its glory.

The srebrno krvomočnica I will come to see when it blooms.

In the forest I found long-leaved lungwort too. There is plenty of it. Damason's (pale lungwort) - has broad leaves - I didn't see it.

Common chickenweed is also found in the forest.

I forgot to show where I spotted the flowering crusty rock cress - it was high above the forest road in the rocks - I couldn't get to it to photograph it better. I zoomed in on the flower.

I seem to have missed the orchises. On the pasture right behind the village before the forest I didn't see them. Somewhere along the path I noticed this already wilted one.

Among the hairy ones and bulbous anemones, this wilted one - it looks like the finger orchid.

Daisies are my weak spot. This is a low-growing daisy - only 10 cm tall. It is the long-hairy hawkweed.

Among hairy ones and bulb anemone I noticed this pink flowering plant - hairy chervil - Chaerophyllum hirsutum.

I don't know bulbils well either. This is already one of them.

I don't know if this is the same. I think not. Judging by the flowers it could be blue-leaved deerweed. In the future I need to photograph leaves and flower more accurately because they differ by that. Flowers are similar.

Among hairy ones and bulbous anemones there is also common trumpet - we will find it in many mid-mountain areas too.

Common bedstraw - Cruciata laevipes - bedstraws - Rubiaceae. Smooth bedstraw has similar flowers but small leaflets under flowers.

This is the nine-leaved cinquefoil, I counted its leaflets. Flowers are much smaller than in golden one.

In the forest under the rock face I found this cottongrass - it's alpine cottongrass.

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miri17. 05. 2014 18:02:48

From the south, right?

B.C.17. 05. 2014 20:53:26

Velkavrh, I see you had a very successful day. They don't say in vain that Črna prst is the botanical garden of the Julian Alps. I myself haven't seen some flowers from your pictures in nature yet, and I haven't even heard of alpine bartsia.

velkavrh18. 05. 2014 05:32:58

This year to Črna prst I'll go each time from a different starting point. That first one three weeks ago doesn't count, because I only got to the pasture below Lisec. Here we have as many as sixteen described approaches. That'll be too many for me too. Anyway, I'll also do a traverse from Rodica to Črna prst. To Rodica from Suha pasture.

Regarding the little flowers, this was nothing yet. Actually I only checked the southern spring forecourt of Črna prst. The real Črna prst actually starts only in a month's time. I already missed some flowers here too. I tried to photograph everything I saw. It's dark in the forest and the pics aren't optimal, some are downright bad. Yesterday was cloudy and not the best for photography.

Alpine bartsia - Bartsia alpina - belongs to the figwort family - I first noticed it last year on Krvavec - then saw it on various hikes. It's not common. In Hoppe's handbook it's listed as rare. L.P.

velkavrh18. 05. 2014 07:08:42

miri, of course this approach is from the south. From Škofja Loka it's quite far here. In between I could go to Sorisko. L.P.

babim18. 05. 2014 11:44:33

Probably you're also picking flowers for tea, and I'm curious where else I could find kidney vetch, thyme and some others will probably be later. Last year on this day we were picking kidney vetch under Blegoš, it was just in full bloom.How is it this year?

B.C.18. 05. 2014 16:20:15

Babim, I couldn't give you any smart advice, because I prefer to photograph flowers rather than pick them.

@Apolonija:
You were right, on my pictures posted 13.5.2014 it's really autumn ragwort. I went to check and it took me quite some time to find it again. And I was sure I knew exactly where it grew. But because of that I found some more interesting flowers, of course again some unknown ones.

I couldn't fit the whole plant in the viewfinder, again no space for the leaves

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velkavrh18. 05. 2014 17:09:56

Today I'll allow myself a bit of freedom. Every other week I check the nearby slopes and there's always something surprising blooming that you wouldn't expect here at all.

This is one slope-all blue from common sage.

This is another-here it is not fertilized, nor mowed.

Here I find this big onion-I don't know what it is called.

Here I find a variety of flowers-among them is a stand of bloody cranesbill.

Here clustered bellflower blooms every year.

At the edge of the slope next to the forest, common fumitory.

Likewise at the edge of the slope by the forest blooms common soapwort.

Likewise at the edge of the forest multi-flowered Solomon's seal.

New discovery on the slope-multi-flowered poppy.

At the edge of the slope by the forest also medicinal valerian.

New surprise that I haven't noticed here yet - pojalnik.

Beautiful - I think it's the gentle pojalnik.

There is also a stand of Pannonian thistle.

At the edge of the slope almost in the forest I encounter this groundcover plant. Has it escaped from the garden? I know it grows as groundcover in gardens. We have it too.

I know it well. Below: among nettles - Lamium galeobdolon.

This little bush with interesting green flowers is the branched goat cherry.

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mirjam6718. 05. 2014 19:20:09

Today some little flowers from the area around Mlake near Vipava.

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Apolonija19. 05. 2014 00:12:11

B.C. Again nice shots of flowers that you've named correctly nasmeh

mirjam67, those little flowers from your area are especially beautiful to me. Tormentil is a wonderful plant. It's cat's ear, not eye, probably really bumblebee orchid, but it doesn't show well. No. 8 is yellow flax, no. 9 common viper's bugloss.

Velkavrh, the plant on 38, 39 belongs to the dead-nettles- Lamium galeobdolon.

velkavrh19. 05. 2014 04:08:48

I still don't know if this nettle escaped from a garden-nowhere in nature have I seen it yet.

I see it's time to go to the Primorska again! In June I plan to go to Nanos.

Apolonija19. 05. 2014 08:08:32

The nettle surely escaped.

mirjam6719. 05. 2014 11:28:59

Apolonija, thanks for the help. I've photographed cat's ear many times, but no photo was the best because I don't have the best camera. But I saw this orchid for the first time and up close it really looks like a bumblebee on the flower. Otherwise the area around Mlak is full of wonderful flowers at this time. Lp