Slovenia: around Lake Bohinj

[Tristan_He]

Hi all, just returned from a 3 week holiday in Europe. Highlight was a week in Slovenia, fabulous country packed with beautiful plants, and so unspoilt. Here are some photos from the woodlands around Lake Bohinj. I don't have an ID guide for the area so identifications are tentative.


Salvia glutinosa was very common in woodland.


Cirsium oleraceum grew in damp woodland edge and meadow habitat.


This pretty little Campanula occurred on dry rocky slopes and limestone cliffs (a common habitat in Slovenia) and seemed to be quite widespread. I think it may be C. cespitosa.


Gentiana asclepiadea was very common in woodland and scrub, and occurred in a wide range of blue shades.

Tristan

[Tristan_He]

We saw several monkshoods on our trip, including this one scrambling through scrub in a dry ravine near Bohinj. We didn't see it again. I think it may be Aconitum degenii.


Here is the ravine it grew in. It drops precipitously off Vogel and presumably receives torrential flooding during snowmelt and is largely dry at other times.