Mystery plants from Bulgaria and Macedonia

[Maggi Young]

The Dianthus looks very pale... is it yellow/creamy? If yellow it must surely be Dianthus knappii

[Kees Jan]

No, it is actually white, but looks strange because it was photographed very late afternoon/ early evening. I know D. knappii from cultivation, but this is something else, no idea what it is though .

[Oron Peri]

Diantus might be D. integer subsp minutiflorus.
Iris is I. x germanica

[Oron Peri]

3rd pictures is something in Asteraceae, photographed at about 700m in SC Macedonia
Subsequently a picture of a Senecio on Mount Korab, near the Albanian border
Finally an Iris of some sort, foothills of Mount Korab

 3rd = Acillea ageratifolia
last = Sideritis montana

[Maggi Young]

Bringing K-J's photos to this page  to see them again in the light of Oron's ID....


1) Achillea ageratifolia

2) Sideritis montana

[Kees Jan]

THANKS! 

[Kees Jan]

I photographed this Antirrhinum in the Rila Mts, Bulgaria. Any idea which species this could be?

[Roma]

Could it be Linaria dalmatica?  I remember many years ago growing this or something very similar at the Cruickshank Garden from seeds brought back by a friend from the former Yugoslavia.

[Kees Jan]

Could be. Some pictures of L. dalmatica on the internet are very similar. I remember the flowers being very large, which made me think it was an Antirrhinum rather than Linaria.

[Maggi Young]

Lovely large flowers, but those spurs and the foliage suggest the Linaria, I think.