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Veronica fruticans Jacq.Rock Speedwell, DE: Felsen-EhrenpreisSlo.: skalni jetinikDat.: July 1. 2015Lat.: 46.44212 Long.: 13.64298Code: Bot_897/2015_IMG8804 Habitat: stony alpine grassland, road side, skeletal ground; southwest oriented mountain slope; open, sunny and dry place; calcareous ground, exposed to direct rain, elevation 2.000 m (6.500 feet), average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0 - 2 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks.Place: Mt. Mangart region, Mangart's flats, road side of Mt. Mangart Alpine tool road, at the beginning of the end road loop, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Veronica fruticans is one of the most beautiful species of very numerous genus Veronica. There are well above thirty species and subspecies known growing in Slovenia. They are not always easy to be determined correctly. Six of them climb up to alpine elevations. None of them has so intensive colored, deep blue flowers as Veronica fruticans. They are also quite large for the genus. Hence it is easy to spot it and to be properly recognized. Veronica fruticans grows exclusively in subalpine and alpine elevations. Individual flowers open for only a single day, but the flowers are clustered and they open one after another, therefore the plant can be spotted a considerably long time in July and August.Ref.:(1) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovene), p 478.
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Orinda, California, United States
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Nevada, United States
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Minnesota, United States
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Ammelshain, Saxony, Germany
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Vedado de Robres: Los Monegros (Huesca) Aragn. Espaa.Familia: SCROPHULARIACEAEDistribucin: Endemismo del cuadrante NE de la Pennsula Ibrica, que alcanza por el NW y W las provincias de Len y Salamanca; se cita principalmente en la mitad E Aragn, desde el Sobrarbe hasta los valles del Martn y Matarraa y N del Maestrazgo, y otras localidades dispersas: Cinco Villas, Zaragoza, comarca de Cariena, Sierra de Albarracn y proximidades de Teruel.Individuos ms o menos dispersos salpicando matorrales y claros de bosque.Hbitat: Forma parte de pastos, matorrales densos y claros de bosques esclerfilos, en reas calidas a baja altitud; es frecuente en algunos coscojares y romerales.Preferencia edfica: Indiferente. Prefiere los sustratos arcillosos o arenosos.Rango altitudinal: 190- 1080 mFloracin: Abril - JunioForma Biolgica: Camfito sufruticosoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Photo taken at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.
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Colorado, United States
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California, United States
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Idaho, United States
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Alberta, Canada
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Summerfields Wood, Hastings.
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2011-04-03 Lower Austria, district Wien-Umgebung (Klosterneuburger Au, 165 msm Quadrant 7663/4).Habitus: it's more creeping than growing upright, here I put one straight for the purpose of showing its features better.German name: Efeu-Ehrenpreis
For ID see remarks here.
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Paederota x churchillii Huter., syn.: Paederota-bonarota-x-Paederota-luteaDE: Hibrid Gelber Ehrenpreis und Buonarota-EhrenpreisSlo.: krianec med rumenim in modrim miljemDat.: July 28. 2005Lat.: 4621'46.69"S Long.: 1327'29.12"V46.36297 13.45809 Code: Bot_0067/2005_DSC0072Habitat: rocks and scree with scattered patches of grassland, almost vertical south oriented mountain slope; bare, calcareous ground; full sun; elevation 2.340 m (7.678 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature ~ 0 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil in rock crevices.Place: Mt. Kanin mountain group, few meters below Forca Tedesca pass, below Mt. Hudi Vri, 2.478 m (8.130 feet), very close to Slovenia- Italy border line, Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: There are only two species of genus Paederota: pale-yellow blooming Paederota lutea and intensive, dark blue blooming Paederota bonarota. Both are endemic to southeast Alps and both grow in Slovenia. Paederota lutea is a common plant of high mountains while Paederota bonarota is quite rare and in Slovenia limited to mountains of Upper Soa river region (west most Slovenian Alps). Where both species are coexisting they sometimes hybridize. The result is plants with intermediate traits of both parents. The most apparent is the color of flowers, which is somewhere in between pale yellow and deep blue. Such are also the leaves in respect to their shape, number of dents on their edge and color (yellow-green with many, sharp dents on each side with Paederota lutea and shiny, dark green, broadly egg shaped to almost round with only a few large dents with Paederota bonarota). The plants photographed seem closer to Paederota bonarota; however color of the flowers is evidently different. The hybrid has been found several times in Slovenia so far. Finds from Mangart's plateau and Upper Trenta valley have been described in literature (Ref.: 1, 2, 3). Only a few plants were found this time on Forca Tedesca with a single inflorescence. Most probably this was my first and the last encounter with this interesting mountain rarity. Ref.:(1) Personal communication. Identification confirmed by Dr. Igor Dakskobler, Natural History Institute 'Jovan Hadi', SAZU.(2) T. Wraber, Floristine novosti iz Julijskih Alp (Floristic novelties from the Julian Alps) (in Slovenian), Bioloki vestnik (1994) 12: 97-108.(3) N. Praprotnik, Modro in rumeno milje (Paederota bonarota and Paederota lutea) (in Slovenian), Gea, (2007), 17 (10):40.(4) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 720.(5) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 554. (6) W. Langer, H. Sauerbier, Endemishe Pflanzen der Alpen (I), IHW-Verlag (1997), p 134/135.
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Mono penstemon, Penstemon monoensis, California, Inyo County, White Mountains, elevation 1340 m (4405 ft).This rare species is found only along the lower west slopes of the White and Inyo Mountains bordering Owens Valley in Inyo and southern Mono counties, California. It prefers dry rocky calcareous soils and outcrops at desert elevations of 1200-1800 meters (3900-5900 feet). Its nearest relative is thought to be Penstemon calcareus from the Death Valley region farther south and east.Ironically the only known Mono County occurrences of this species are in the canyon where these images were taken, about a mile north of the county line. If the type specimens hadn't just happened to be collected here in 1906, there's a good chance the species would have been named P. inyoensis instead!
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Valle de Hecho: Pirineo aragons.Espaa.Familia: SCROPHULARIACEAEDistribucin: Endmica del W y WC de Europa; en la Pennsula Ibrica se cita exclusivamente de la zona pirenaica, entre Catalua y Navarra, y en Len; en Aragn por el Alto Pirineo y Prepirineo.Hbitat: Crece en los claros de quejigales, hayedos, bosques mixtos y pinares, incluso los de pino negro; tambin coloniza rellanos de roca, pedrizas estables, pastos y bordes de caminosPreferencia edfica: Indiferente. Se ha encontrado sobre conglomerados, pizarras, calcoesquistos, margas y calizas.Rango altitudinal: ( 670 ) 1950- 2050 mForma Biolgica: Hemicriptfito escaposoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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Doulcon, Lorraine, France