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Sternbergia lutea
Common Sternbergia
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 1023 0735 (2023-10-23)Copyright © 2023 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Oct 1, 2023
latitude 44.80224 longitude 14.37110
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location
Adriatic Sea region, island Cres, outskirts of the village Miholašćica, Kvarner bay (Rijeka region, Croatia)family
Amaryllidoideae
notes Slo.: rumenocvetna sternbergija - syn.: Amaryllis lutea L., Oporanthus luteus (L.) Herb., Oporanthus siculus (Tineo ex Guss.) Parl., Sternbergia aurantiaca Dinsm., Sternbergia greuteriana Kamari & R. Artelari, Sternbergia sicula Tineo ex Guss. - Habitat: unmaintained olive grove next to a street, semiruderal, calcareous ground; elevation 20 m (70 feet); average precipitations 800-900 mm/year, average temperature 12-14 deg C; Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. - Substratum: sandy soil. - Comments (pertain to pictures in Flicker album Sternbergia lutea): Sternbergia lutea is a very beautiful Mediterranean plant. From far, it is visually indistinguishable from well-known yellow crocuses. Nevertheless, both plants are botanically unrelated. It is hard to say whether Sternbergia lutea is a rare or a common plant. In the wild it is definitely a rare find, probably extinct in Slovenia, more frequent but still not at all common in Croatia and growing exclusively on Adriatic islands and a narrow band of the adjacent continental sea shore. However, because massively cultivated and common in gardens it is also a common plant. The number of cultivated plants probably vastly exceeds the number of the wild specimens. It frequently escapes gardens. So, it is often difficult to say whether a given specimen is wild, escaped or cultivated. These pictures almost certainly show escaped specimens. Though they didn't grow on cultivated ground but on semiruderal ground more or less outside the village, I've seen the species in a few village gardens not far from this finds. To distinguish Sternbergia lutea from crocuses one has to count stamens of the flowers. Sternbergia lutea has six, crocuses have three. Also, Sternbergia lutea blooms in autumn and crocuses in spring. So, there is no problems with the proper determination. Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 744. (2) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 2., Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 122, (3) I. Schӧnfelder, P. Schӧnfelder, Kosmos Atlas Mittelmeer- und Kanarenflora, Kosmos, (2002), p 268. (4) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 489. (5) R. Domac, Flora Hrvatske (Flora of Croatia) (in Croatian), Školska Knjiga, Zagreb (1994), p 402. (6) W.K. Rottensteiner, Exkursionsflora für Istrien, Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Kärten (2014), p 156.camera Sony ILCE6000 / Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar E 16-70 mm/f4
contributor's ID # Bot_1552/2023_DSC1095 photo category: Plant - annual/perennial
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