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Omphalodes verna
Blue-eyed Mary
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0416 2157 (2016-04-19)Copyright © 2016 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Apr 16, 2016
latitude 45.98589 longitude 14.02904
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Next to the road from town Idrija to 'Divje jezero' lake, about 100 m before parking place at 'Divje jezero' (Idrijsko, Slovenia)notes Slo.: spomladanska torilnica, beli različek - syn.: Omphalodes repens Schrank, Cynoglossum omphalodes L. - Habitat: almost vertical, stony road scarp, northwest aspect, mostly shady; elevation 360 m (1.180 feet); average precipitations ~ 2.000-2.600 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, Dinaric phytogeographical region. Comment: Omphalodes verna is generally a common plant in Slovenia, particularly in Dinaric phytogeographical region. But it is much rarer in Alpine and submediterranean parts and almost completely missing in northeast part of the country. It has the most intensive blue color of flowers possible. It is so to say 'burning blue' and its true color is always out of color gamut of digital photography. Hence an encounter with an albino version of its unusually shaped flowers is quite interesting (see picture no.12 of a 'normal' one). Omphalodes verna is a southeast European plant, growing in Dinaric mountains, Apennines, Carpathians and also in parts of Southeast Alps in Italy, Austria and Slovenia. Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 544. (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 689. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2,, Haupt (2004), p 94. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 790.photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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