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Rock currant (Ribes petraeum)

Type: Shrubs
Family: Grossulariaceae
Color: red

Fragrant wallflower (Erysimum odoratum)

Type: Flower
Family: Brassicaceae
Color: yellow

Description: Fragrant wallflower is much more common than Carniolan wallflower. The differences between them are often not very obvious. Fragrant has petiolate basal leaves, rosette withered/dried at flowering (Carniolan still green). Stem often branched (rare in Carniolan). Flowers and sepals noticeably smaller, 14-18 mm, sepals 7-9 mm (Carniolan flower 18-23 mm, sepal 9-11 mm). Neck length 1.2-3 mm in fragrant, 0.8 mm in Carniolan. (Data from Small flora of Slovenia, key for ferns and seed plants, 2007)

Carniolan wallflower (Erysimum carniolicum), photos from one of the rare sites, Svibno.

Prostrate forget-me-not (Myosotis decumbens)

Type: Flower
Family: Boraginaceae
Color: blue
Description: Similar to woodland forget-me-not, but has calyx lobes longer than corolla tube, so their tips twisted outward. Basal leaves long-petioled (woodland short-petioled), longest hooked hairs on calyces 0.3-0.5 mm (woodland 0.2 mm), visible only under lens.

@velkavrh, congratulations for the nice collection of flowers from Zelenice.
I noticed errors in identifications: plantain is Bohinj one (smooth rounded leaflets), whitish stems are actually green hound's-tongue.
Skeptical about claims that 3 species of lady-ferns and 2 species of fescues grow there.

Regards,
malenka

@tulipan, congrats on the photo of the rare plant - tomato!

LP malenka

Darinka4, you photographed mountain lousewort, striped crocus and cinquefoil (species is hard to determine).

Brooklime (Veronica beccabunga)

Type: Flowers
Family: Plantaginaceae
Color: blue

Rhapontica (Stemmacantha rhapontica)

Wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis)

Type: Trees
Family: Rosaceae
Color: white

Variegated moorgrass (Sesleria caerulea agg.)

Type: Grasses
Family: Grasses

Bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)

Goldilocks buttercup (Ranunculus auricomus agg.)

Type: Flowers
Family: buttercup family
Color: yellow

This is a group (agg.) with several subspecies that non-experts find hard to distinguish from each other. All are considered rare and poorly researched here.
Their common feature is round to kidney-shaped basal leaves and stem leaves divided to the base into more or less narrow segments. Their fruit is short-hairy.

Bulbous meadow-grass (Poa bulbosa)

Alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum)

Type: Grasses
Family: Grasses