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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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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 Kobariki Stol ridge, between Planina Boca and Mt. Starijski vrh, East Julian Alps, Posoje, 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 fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks.Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild.Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find!Ref.:(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild. Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild. Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild. Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild. Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Slo.: velecvetni naprstec - syn.: Digitals ambigua Murr. - Habitat: mountain grassland with tall herbs, next to the dirt mountain road; moderately steep mountain slope, south-southwest aspect; calcareous, skeletal ground; full sun, relatively warm and dry place; elevation 1.340 m (4.400 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 3-5 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks. Comment: Digitalis grandiflora is a beautiful, stout mountain flower, which usually grows in groups of several flowering stalks. One can find three species of genus Digitals growing in Slovenia. Digitalis grandiflora is the most common and growing predominantly in mountain habitats. It is a pale or light yellow flowering plant, brownish inside the flower bells. The second one is Digitalis leavigata. It has yellow flowers with purplish veins or patches. It is a low-land plant and found in warmer regions of Slovenia and not present in the Alpine phytogeographical region. The third one is mostly a garden plant of several forms - Digitalis purpurea - with red, scarlet, purple or other color flowers. It sometimes escapes from gardens in the wild. Some of the plants at the place of this observation are very unusual. Habitus, habit and the shape of the flowers clearly speaks in favor of Digitalis grandiflora (such are also normally colored plants growing next to the unusual ones) but not the coloration of the flowers. Their flower bells are beautifully decorated by purplish base and net of veins. One could eventually think on some kind of hybrid. But other two species with red in their flowers are far, far away of this totally wild mountain place. So, hybridization seems extremely improbable. Certainly an interesting mutation and a rare find! Ref.: (1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, 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. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 878.
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Visby Botaniske have, Gotland, Sverige
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Visby Botaniske have, Gotland, Sverige
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Tjekkiet
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Tjekkiet
