Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Kat N on June 29, 2020, 07:49:10 PM
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My husband and oldest son went on a two-day hike last week from the Krimml Waterfall to the Wildgerlostal (highest point reached ca. 2800 m). I gave them the directive to take photos of interesting flowers - this is what they brought back:
Saxifraga - possibly androsacea (ignore photo name)
Silene acaulis
Pulsatilla alpina subsp. austriaca (ignore photo name)
Linaria alpina
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A few more, and some from further down the mountain.
Aquilegia atrata
Primula minima
Alpenrose
Gentiana acaulis
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Your menfolk did well, Kat!
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Sax. caesia is not the right name, but must see the leaves - perhaps Sax. androsacea?
Ranunculus glacialis is Anemone (Pulsatilla) alpina
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Pauli -Thanks! I was going off of the guidebook I had from the National Park (published in 2014) and was wondering if I had the right IDs for all of them. Sax. androsacea isn’t even in the book! I think you are right, I compared photos with the higher-res picture I had and the leaves are bigger and more elongated than the Sax. caesia and even have some of the hairs that the Sax. androsacea appear to have. (ETA: It’s a bit hard to see in the photo posted because there are several small plants among moss and the greens fade together). Will fix the captions :)
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Beautiful pictures Kat, they did a good job! And an opportunity to learn some of the species :)
I don't know about the Sax. but the Ranunculus is indeed a Pulsatilla.
The image with the Alpenrose is spectacular!
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Definitely a great opportunity to learn about the species - and work on my German :)
The Alpenrose was so pretty, it was about a week or so from full bloom. The hillsides must be swathed in pink right about now. This was the first time I had been there in June, by late July and August a lot of the interesting flowers are finished blooming.