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2012-08-14 Lower Austria, district Schwechat - Danube National ParkGerman name: Siebenbrgen-Schuppenkopf
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La Granadella, Catalonia, Spain
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2009.07.08: Austria, Vienna, 155 m AMSL, fringe of farmland (Lobau): leaves.Probably a bastard with D. fullonum (habitus like D. laciniatus but leaves more similar to those of D. fullonum): flowering white like D. laciniatus: see also flower photo.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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The Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses (UK)
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The flower head of this mountain species from Papallacta Pass of the Ecuadorian Andes.
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Montes de Torrero: Zaragoza . Aragn (Espaa)Familia: VALERIANACEADistribucin: Distribuida por los pases del entorno mediterrneo. En Espaa aparece por todo el territorio peninsular salvo en las zonas montaosas de mayor altitud. En Aragn se encuentra por toda la regin salvo en las zonas de mayor altitud.Hbitat: Fitocenosis alteradas o sobre suelos removidos de zonas secas.Preferencia edfica: Indiferente Rango altitudinal: 90- 1400 ( 1600 ) mFloracin: Abril - JulioForma Biolgica: Terfito. Terfito escaposoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
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2009.08.09: Austria, Lower Austria, district Bruck/Leitha, 220 m AMSL, broadleaf forest (dominant species: Quercus cerris): flower.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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I imagine that more than one of our bumblebee friends have been speared by the formidable bracts and other sharp prickles of this non-native plant species.Some folks see this plant and think it is a thistle, but it is instead teasel, Dipsacus fullonum subsp. sylvestris (syn. Dipsacus sylvestris). The bumblebee appears to be the Yellow Bumblebee, Bombus fervidus, one of our 18 or so native species of Bombus. It has a long tongue, black head and facial hairs, a black band on the thorax between its wing bases, short/even hairs, black corbicular fringes, and abdominal segments that are yellow except for the terminal segment.While always interesting to photograph, teasel in our area is thought to have been introduced by pioneers and is invasive. It wreaks havoc in our delicate moisture loving environments by forming large monocultures that exclude other naturally occurring species. Efforts to eradicate it must continue (and replaced with tall native forbs). As a biennial, the best approach to its removal seems to be to wait until just before it starts to flower, and then cut it right at the base with loppers (making sure sure to wear long-armed gloves and eye protection). Cutting it mid-way along the stem is insufficient since it will then quickly produce flowers from new growth below the cut.August 2, 2014, Salt Lake County, Utah, at approx. 4,335 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. In fact, Welsh (first in 2003, A Utah Flora, 3rd ed.) reports that in Utah's Summit County (due east of Salt Lake County), there are aspen slopes where this shrub is the principal understory plant and has been growing in that area since at least the 1920's; yet as here, we are also seeing this occur more and more commonly in dry, foothill habitats. So it appears this is yet another cultivated ornamental gone very wrong.April 28, 2012, Popperton Park, Salt Lake City, Utah, elevation 4,950 ft.The yellow flowering plant at the far right/background is an even more vicious and noxious weed, Dyer's woad, Isatis tinctoria. In front of the honeysuckle is a native shrub, Rabbitbrush, which is seemingly being slowly swallowed by the honeysuckle.
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Chilly, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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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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Oneota (historical), Nevada, United States
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June 3, 2012, Bear Wallow, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona
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Centranthus ruber, Spur valerian (Plant, Valerianaceae), New Zealand: Naturalisedvolcanic rocks cliffsLittle Port CooperLyttelton harbourBanks PeninsulaCanterburyNew Zealand
naturewatch.org.nz/observations/342894