Image of Primula villosa Wulfen

Description:

Slo: kutravi jegli - Habitat: Stony pasture, in crevices of outcropped rocks, on steep to vertical Andesite rock faces, rarely south oriented, otherwise at sunny and fairly dry places, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 1.500-1.800 mm/year, average temperature 4-6 deg C, elevations 1.650 m (5.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Substratum: acid soil pockets in Andesite rock. - Comment: Endemic to Southeast Alps. Growing solitary and in groups of a few plants P. villosa is a species with extraordinarily disjunct distribution. It grows on six small areas in eastern Alps. The most southeast of them is on top of Mt. Komen in Slovenia (a second small area in Slovenia was discovered just recently). Smrekovec mountains are a region with rare (in Slovenia) extrusive magmatic rock Andesite. - Ref.: (1) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 676. (2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 480. (3) G.Cmith, B. Burrow and D.Lowe, Primulas of Europe and America, The Alpine Garden Society (1987), pp 139. (4) J.Richards, Primula, B.T. Batsford Ltd, London (1993), pp 94. (5) H.Sauerbier, W.Langer, Alpenpflanzen, Endemiten von Nizza bis Wien, IHW-Verlag, (2000), p 152.