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Veronica fruticans
Veronica fruticans
Rock Speedwell
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 0715 1738 (2015-07-21)

Copyright © 2015 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Jul 1, 2015
  • latitude 46.44212   longitude 13.64298     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Mt. Mangart region, Mangart's flats, road side of Mt. Mangart Alpine tool road, at the beginning of the end road loop, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: skalni jetičnik - Habitat: stony alpine grassland, road side, skeletal ground; southwest oriented mountain slope; open, sunny and dry place; calcareous ground, exposed to direct rain, elevation 2.000 m (6.500 feet), average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0 - 2 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. - Comment: Veronica fruticans is one of the most beautiful species of very numerous genus Veronica. There are well above thirty species and subspecies known growing in Slovenia. They are not always easy to be determined correctly. Six of them climb up to alpine elevations. None of them has so intensive colored, deep blue flowers as Veronica fruticans. They are also quite large for the genus. Hence it is easy to spot it and to be properly recognized. Veronica fruticans grows exclusively in subalpine and alpine elevations. Individual flowers open for only a single day, but the flowers are clustered and they open one after another, therefore the plant can be spotted a considerably long time in July and August. - Ref.: (1) A.Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovene), p 478.
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_897/2015_IMG8804
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

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  • common names   Rock Speedwell (photographer)
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