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Senecio abrotanifolius
Pinnate-leaved Ragwort
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0915 2263 (2015-09-26)Copyright © 2015 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Aug 1, 2015
latitude 46.44251 longitude 13.63901
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Mt. Mangart region, right side of the upper part of the main ravine of Mt. Mangart's flats, below Čez jezik pass, 2.055 m, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: abraščevolistni grint - Habitat: Moderately steep alpine pasture, grass patches among scree and rocks, southeast aspect; skeletal, calcareous ground; open place, full sun, exposed to direct rain; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature about 0 deg C, elevation 2.000 m (6.550 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil among rocks. - Comment: Senecio abrotanifolius is an East Alpine - Illyric botanic element. In the West Alps and other European mountains one would search for it in vain. Apart of the East Alps it is limited to northwestern part of the Dinaric Mountains including Mt. Učka in Istria and Velebit Mountains at its most south occurrences. It is one of the flowering plants, which is not a common plant but sometimes appears massively and colors whole mountain slopes. Its large, deep orange-yellow heads reach up to 4 cm in diameter and deep green, shiny leaves are deeply divided. Hundreds of flower heads in large golden patches among white limestone scree and rocks and saturated green mountain grasses form truly marvelous vistas. Mt. Mangart's flats are especially rich in this sense. - Genus Senecio is very large. Worldwide there are about 1.500 species known. Among 20 species of the genus, which grow in Slovenia, eight of them climb up into sub- and alpine elevations. All bloom in some shade of yellow. But Senecio abrotanifolius can be easily recognized by its two to three times deeply divided leaves with the terminal segments, which are only about one to two mm broad. In addition, large, deeply orange-yellow flowers heads are characteristic. - Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovenian), p 670. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 920. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 548. (4) T. Wraber, 2 x Sto alpskih rastlin na Slovenskem (2 times 100 Alpine Plants of Slovenia), Prešernova družba (2006) (in Slovenian), p 185. (5) E.J. Jäger, Rothmaler 3, Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, 11. Aufl., Elsevier, Spectrum (2007), p 508.camera Nikon D700/Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_906/2015_DSC8194 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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