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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on September 14, 2019, 04:32:54 PM

Title: Eritrichium?
Post by: FrazerHenderson on September 14, 2019, 04:32:54 PM

Photographed in the month of June in Tien Shan at 3600-3700 feet metres (. I think it is a very hairy form of Eritrichium tianschanicum but references state that species doesn't go beyond 3000metres. Would welcome confirmation.

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Title: Re: Eritrichium?
Post by: gmoen on September 15, 2019, 05:09:34 PM

In Tian Shan I saw this at 3800 meters. I think it should be 3600-3700 meters, not feet.

Title: Re: Eritrichium?
Post by: FrazerHenderson on September 15, 2019, 09:04:11 PM

Thanks, yes, I should have written metres

Title: Re: Eritrichium?
Post by: ruweiss on September 15, 2019, 09:07:19 PM

Vojtech Holubec and David Horak write in their excellent book The Tian Shan and its Flowers
about the habitat of Eritrichium tianschanicum: Rock crevices, rocky river deposits, grassland,
moraines, from subalpine to alpine zone, 2500 - 3000m.