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Digitalis grandiflora
Digitalis grandiflora
Yellow Foxglove
Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

ID: 0000 0000 0416 0176 (2016-04-02)

Copyright © 2016 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy

 
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  • date of photo  Jul 15, 2008
  • latitude 46.26886   longitude 13.50576     View on Google Maps.
  • location   Above the dirt road along Kobariški Stol ridge, between Planina Božca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)
  • notes   Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - Habitat: moderately steep mountain slope, south aspect, next to a dirt road, sunny and dry place; calcareous, stony ground, exposed to direct rain; elevation 1.190 m (3.900 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 4-6 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil. Place: Above the dirt road along Kobariški Stol ridge, between Planina Božca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora, an Euro-Siberian floral element, is a beautiful plant. Its stately habitus, rich flowering, size and special shape of its flowers make a wonderful appearance in spite of the fact that its flowers are rather pale yellow colored. The plant is sometimes more than 1 m tall. It can be found quite often mostly in montane elevations among other tall herbs of mountain slopes. Digitalis grandiflora is widely distributed all over Slovenia as well as in Europe. It grows in almost all Alpine regions and other European mountains with exception of Pyreneans and Apennines. The plant is very poisonous, however also an old (and dangerous) medical plant. Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 728. (2) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 212. (3) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
  • camera   Nikon D70 /Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
  • contributor's ID #  Bot_282/2008_DSC1444
  • photo category: Plant - annual/perennial

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  • common names   Yellow Foxglove (photographer)
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