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Pulsatilla montana
Mountain Pasqueflower
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0119 0924 (2019-01-07)Copyright © 2019 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Mar 11, 2011
latitude 45.83438 longitude 13.77368
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location
About 1 km north of village Mali dol, Komen Karst region (Primorska, Slovenia)notes Slo.: gorski kosmatinec - syn.: Anemone montana Hoppe, Pulsatilla vulgaris - Habitat: grassland, pasture, mixed hardwood in the vicinity; almost flat terrain; open sunny, dry place; calcareous ground; elevation 295 m (970 feet); average precipitations 1.400-1.500 mm/year, average temperature 11-13 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil. - Comment: Pulsatilla montana is a poisonous but incredible beautiful plant with its deep complementary colored and large, up to 5 cm in diameter, flowers, which are enveloped with silvery hairy garment. It is a South European montane floral element and is absent from most regions of the Alps including Slovenian alpine phytogeographical region. But it grows scattered more southern. In Slovenia this not really rare, but uncommon beauty can be found scattered in country's warmest, southwest part. - Pictures shows young, still small plant. During its anthese (time in which a flower fully develops from bud to fruit) it grows constantly and is much taller at the end. - Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroženih rastlinskih in živalskih vrst v rdeči seznam, Uradni list RS, št. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by 'V' representing a vulnerable species. - Ref.: (1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 148. (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 135. (3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 303.camera Canon G11, 6.1-30mm/f2.8-4.5
contributor's ID # Bot_493/2011_IMG3916 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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