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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Tiggrx on July 14, 2008, 09:32:27 PM

Title: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Tiggrx on July 14, 2008, 09:32:27 PM

I was wondering if any of you guys could help ID these plants I found growing in the Julian Alps, Slovenia.

1. A Campanula. This one is really puzzling me. It was growing in the village of Brod not far from Lake Bohinj so may possibly have been a garden escape rather than natural. According to the local flora the species found in that area are: C. zoysii, patula, rapunculus, persicifolia, barbata, glomerata, cervicaria, spicata, thyrsoides, latifolia, trachelium, rapunculoides, bononiensis, carnica, witasekiana, inconcessa, cochleariifolia, cespitosa, scheuchzeri & rotundifolia. I haven't been able to convince myself it is any of them.

2. A Sedum. Growing amongst rocks near Kranjska Gora. Could it be S. atratum

3. A Silene?. Growing on rocks above Lake Bohinj.

I would be grateful for any help
Aaron

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Tiggrx/1campanula2.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Tiggrx/1sedum.jpg)

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Tiggrx/1caryophyllaceae.jpg)

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Tiggrx on July 14, 2008, 09:34:02 PM

Sorry - not sure why pictures have come out so big (or sideways) :-[

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: mark smyth on July 14, 2008, 11:09:14 PM

The photo wasnt edited down. It was still in it's oraginal size os 2857 pixels wide.

Here it is

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 14, 2008, 11:22:24 PM

Perhaps the first is Campanula rotundifolia?

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Tiggrx on July 15, 2008, 07:06:50 AM

Thank you Mark - now realize I could have attached the pics differently.

Lesley - not sure about C. rotundifolia - that was certainly a common plant in the area but this was rather bigger than average (c.40cm) and has broader stem leaves than I've seen on that species. Of course it is a very variable plant :)

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: hadacekf on July 15, 2008, 06:01:18 PM

Aron,
It is the annual Sedum atratum ssp. carinthiacum

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on July 15, 2008, 07:41:11 PM

I agree with Franz! See his website,for instance:
 http://www.franz-alpines.org/w_sedum_atratum_subsp_carinthiacum.html

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: Tiggrx on July 15, 2008, 10:00:51 PM

Thanks Franz & Maggi. The nearest I could find was S. atratum but was a bit put off by the lack of red colour - mystery solved :)

Title: Re: Some Julian Alps plants for ID please
Post by: ranunculus on August 02, 2008, 08:07:19 AM

Possibly Silene veselskyi ... but I am not totally convinced.