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Aquilegia einseleana
Einsele's Columbine
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0820 2858 (2020-08-23)Copyright © 2020 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jul 3, 2020
latitude 46.36136 longitude 13.69161
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Lower Trenta valley between villages Soča and Trenta; Skokar's ravine, below mountain ridge from Mt. Bavški grintavec to Mt. Srebrnjak; East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)notes Slo.: Einselejeva orlica - syn.: Aquilegia pyrenaica var. einseleana (F. W. Schultz) Fiori, Aquilegia vulgaris var. einseleana (F. W. Schultz) Brühl, Aquilegia bauhini Schott, Aquilegia thalictrifolia Schott & Kotschy, Aquilegia vestinae Pfenn. & D. M. Moser - Habitat: Steep mountain ravine, southeast aspect; stony, calcareous ground; open, sunny, relatively warm place; elevation 850 m (2.790 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6 - 8 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. - Comment: Aquilegia einseleana is a beautiful, endemic, Alpine species of a very attractive genus columbine (Aquilegia). In nature (many, also beautiful, cultivars of this genus exist on the horticultural market) it can be admired only in Slovenian Alps, on a few places in Austria, in northeast Italy, in the south most alpine region in Germany and in a tiny (0.2%) portion of Switzerland in Tessin. It grows in two strictly divided narrow, running in west-east direction, belts: in the most south-eastern calcareous Alps and in a small disjunct location in the most northern calcareous Alps – and nowhere else. The plants are smaller and more gracious than other species of this genus growing in Slovenia, but with relatively large, intensive violet blue, beautifully shaped flowers and rounded leaf segments of bluish green color. The plant is rare to very rare in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, however, in Trenta valley it is quite common and by far the most common of all Aquilegia species growing here. - Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 266. (2) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 148. (3) W. Langer, H. Sauerbier, Endemishe Pflanzen der Alpen (I), IHW-Verlag (1997), ISBN 3-930167-22-0, p 24. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 186. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 142.camera Camera: Sony ILCE6000 / Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar E 16-70 mm/f4
contributor's ID # Bot_1316/2020_DSC04576 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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