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2009.07.11: Austria, Vienna, 155 m AMSL, fringe of farmland (Lobau): flower.Probably a bastard with D. fullonum (habitus like D. laciniatus but leaves more similar to those of D. fullonum): see also leaves photo.Flowering in july/august.Quite rare.German name: Schlitzblatt-Karde.ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd
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Orinda, California, United States
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Succisa pratensis Moench, syn.: Scabiosa succisa L., Succisa praemorsa Asch.EN: Devil's-bit Scabious, Devil's-bit, DE: Gewhnlicher Teufelsabbiss, Wiesen-Abbisskraut, AbbisskrautSlo.: travnika izjevkaDat.: June 10. 2008Lat.: 45.84361 Long.: 14.26548Code: Bot_270/2008_DSC9145Habitat: Karst field, moist grassland; flat, frequently flooded terrain; open place, full sun, average precipitations 1.600 - 1.800 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 445 m (1.450 feet), Dinaric phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: Planinsko polje (Planina fields) near village Planina, Notranjska, Slovenia EC.Comment: Succisa pratensis is widely distributed but not quite common Euro- West-Asian floral element. It can be found from plains to subalpine elevations and is at home in all European mountains (Ref. 4). It can be found scattered almost in the whole Slovenia.Yet, Succisa pratensis is consciously relatively infrequently encountered. There seem to be two reasons for that. First: it is predominately bound to its preferred habitat - wet grassland, a habitat, which is relatively rare and gradually disappearing. Second: superficially it is quite similar in appearance to several truly widespread and common (and therefore of little interest) grassland plants pertaining to "widow flowers" (genus Knautia) and "scabious" or "pincushion flowers" (genus Scabiosa). Many of them are of similar habit and shape of their inflorescence - heads and color of flowers. Only a closer examination makes distinguishing Succisa pratensis from other similar plants easy. It has only four petals in the individual flowers (four lobed flowers) in contrast to others, which have five petals (five lobed flowers) and its stalk leaves are opposite not alternate. It is interesting that there exist two types of these plants. Some have flowers with stamens and pistils (bisexual flowers), others have only female flowers having pistils only.Ref.:(1) Personal communication Mr. Branko Dolinar,
www.orhideje.si(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p xx.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 499. (4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 406.(5) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 1020.(6) L. Pintar, A. Selikar, Cvetje Slovenske Deele - Florula Slovenica, Zaloba Narava d.o.o. (2015) (in Slovenian), p 79.
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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Norfolk, Virginia, United States
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Maule Region, Chile
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Native to the mountains of Ecuador and northern Peru. Photo from Papallacta Pass, east of Quito.
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2009.08.09: Austria, Lower Austria, district Bruck/Leitha, 220 m AMSL, broadleaf forest (dominant species: Quercus cerris): habitus.Flowering from june till october.Not uncommon.German name: Breitblttrige Ungarn-Witwenblume.ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd
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Cephalaria leucantha (L.) Roemer & Schultes, syn.: Scabiosa leucantha L., Scabiosa trenta HacquetEN: Giant Scabious, DE: Weier Schuppenkopf, Weibltiger Schuppenkopf, Weiblhender SchuppenkopfSlo.: bleda obloglavka, trentarski grintavecDat.: July 22. 2019 Lat.: 45.443873 Long.: 13.966619Code: Bot_1232/2019_DSC09021 Habitat: dry grassland partly overgrown with scattered trees and bushes, locally flat terrain, skeletal, calcareous ground; open, sunny, dry place; elevation 485 m (1.919 feet);average precipitations 1.800 2.000 mm/year, average temperature 9-10 deg C, sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: South of village Rakitovec (Slovenia), Kraki rob place, 900 m south of Slovenia/Croatia border crossing Rakitovec, next to the road toward town Buzet, Istria, Croatia EC. Comment: Cephalaria leucantha is a plant with a special significance in the history of Slovenian botany. It was first described more than 200 years ago in 1782 by Balthasar Hacquet. He was a medical doctor and an important scholar of very wide scope, living in the town Idria. Amon other activities he intensively researched Slovenian flora, particularly high in the Alps. A that time he described to the first time a beautiful, pale yellow plant found somewhere on the south slopes of Mt. Triglav above the Trenta valley. Exact location was lost. A dried specimen and Hacquet's drawing of the plant still exist in the herbarium of the Natural History Museum in Ljubljana. He named the new species Scabiosa trenta after the valley Trenta (note that some time ago Cephalaria leucantha was moved from genus Scabiosa to genus Cephalaria). After that the plant apparently 'disappeared' and hence became a botany riddle. Many botanists had been searching for it for more than 100 years, but none successfully. The plant became a great source of inspiration for later botanists and mountaineers of that time, especially for Julius Kugy, a German of Slovenian descent. He was writer, botanist, humanist, lawyer, musician and the father of modern mountaineering in the Julian Alps. He had searched for his beloved 'princes', as he named it, for almost all of his life. Much later Austrian botanist Anton Kerner found by careful inspection of the plant in the herbarium in Ljubljana that it doesn't represent a new Alpine species, as Hacquet was convinced, but a much more south growing Mediterranean plant Scabiosa leucantha (today named Cephalaria leucantha). So, the riddle was solved. It is quite possible that the plant, which Hacquet found, was among the last of its species growing in the Julian Alps and is now extinct from this region. Scabiosa trenta on the slopes of Mt. Triglav was probably a relic of warmer times between last ice ages. During that time many southern plants protruded far north into Alpine regions and were pushed back to the south by following colder climate. Nevertheless, Scabiosa trenta remains a strong symbol in Slovenian botany.The pictures shown here were taken at Kraki rob place in Croatia just 500 m southwest of Slovenia/Croatia border. But the plant can be found also in Slovenia in its warmest, southwest regions, however only in a few MTB squares. It also enters the most southwest parts of the Alps.Ref.:(1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 404.(2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 499. (3) W.K. Rottensteiner, Exkursionsflora fr Istrien, Verlag des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Krten (2014), p 423.(4) M. Blamey, C. Grey-Wilson, Wild Flowers of the Mediterranean, A & C Black, London (2005), p 425.
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Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sylvestris (syn. Dipsacus sylvestris) being visted by a Bombus which seems to most closely match B. huntii (but that is a guess).Teasel is a not a native plant to the United States much less in our area; introduced.September 19, 2010, Woodstock Meadows Park, Salt Lake County, Murray, Utah, at approx. 4,360 ft. elev.
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Lonicera tatarica (Tatarian honeysuckle), a shrub of Eurasian origin that has escaped cultivation and has increasingly become invasive in northern Utah. Honeysuckles can have very fragrant flowers but I don't recall noticing any fragrance in connection with this large shrub that was in full flower.Note the flower buds arising in sessile pairs, and, the distinct, narrow bracts below. The entire leaves are lanceolate to oblong.April 28, 2012, Popperton Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, elevation 4,950 ft.
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Estepa sur de Zaragoza: Aragn (Espaa)Sinonimo: Scabiosa stellata L. Familia: DIPSACACEAEDistribucin: En Europa se conoce de las reas secas de la Pennsula Ibrica y en Aragn predomina en el sector de la Depresin, se halla dispersa por el Prepirineo y Somontanos y salpica la mitad N del Sistema Ibrico, siendo ms rara en la mitad S.Hbitat: Interviene en pastizales anuales secos en exposiciones bien soleadas y puede verse tanto en medios nitrificados baldos, campos abandonados, cunetas y otros lugares alterados.- como en claros de matorral romeral, tomillar, matorral gipscola, entre otros- o grietas y rellanos de roquedos calizos. Preferencia edfica: Basfila. Basfila Gipscola. Con frecuencia coloniza terrenos pedregosos y margosos y no desdea los yesos; slo ocasionalmente se ha detectado en sustrato silceo.Rango altitudinal:( 90 ) 140- 1035 ( 1340 ) mFloracin: Mayo - JulioForma Biolgica: Terfito escaposoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
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California, United States
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6/5/07 Dry Creek, near Thompson Falls, MT
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