Visit to the Pindus mountains in the Grevena District in Greece, May 15, 2016

[papapoly]

At 1000 m, Alkanna sp (685, 686)

Also at 1000 m, Cerastium sp (690, 698, 703)

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At 1000 m, Euphorbia sp (710, 711)

In very rocky terrain at 900 m, this Acanthus sp (718, 722, 800)
It is not balcanicus which grows tall and grows in good soil.  This one is only 7-8 cm tall.

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Also at 900 m, growing in stony ground this sp which looks like a potentilla but its leaves are very different.  I really do not know what it could be (727, 730)

This one, I have seen it grow at 1900 m in Mount Ossa.  I forget the genus name (737, 740)

Convolvulus sp (753)

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Finally, also at 900 m

A beautiful Hypericum ? sp (750, 763, 772)

and a typical Verbascum sp (784, 787)

George Papapolymerou

[Hoy]

Also at 900 m, growing in stony ground this sp which looks like a potentilla but its leaves are very different.  I really do not know what it could be (727, 730)

This one, I have seen it grow at 1900 m in Mount Ossa.  I forget the genus name (737, 740)

Convolvulus sp (753)

The yellow one I think is a Fumana (looks a bit like F. procumbens -does it grow there?)

[Hoy]

Achillea sp in bud (503 and 504)

Unknown sp (507 and 508)

Scleranthus perhaps.

[Hoy]

Around the ski area, 1800 m

Unknown sp (527, 528)

Draba sp? (547 & 548).  I am not sure if it is the same as in pics 509 & 511

Doronicum columnae

A Sedum and a Cerastium?

Not a Draba, don't think the other one is either (more like a Alyssum or something).

[Hoy]

Unknown sp by the roadside

The last one is a Silene (uralensis?). Maybe the other ones are Silene also.

[Hoy]

Unknown sp also by the roadside

Cardamine (bulbifera?)

[Hoy]

Unknown sp.  I tried to get a close-up photo but it didn't work out.  It is a fuzzy image.
 

I will resume transmitting in the evening

George

A Galium?

[Hoy]

Forgot to attach images

657 is a Petasites?

[Hoy]

Very interesting, papapoly! I have tried to put names on some of the plants

[Lesley Cox]

I think 727 and 730 are a Helianthemum. This same plant was once sent to me from a collection on Mt Olympus (by that mountain's best known Englishman!)as Viola delphinantha. I assume he got his seeds mixed rather than didn't know which was which.

Some great plants there George, especially the violas and the cushions. Thanks for sharing your visit with us.

[Gabriela]

Interesting species; here's my contribution for ID
520 and the likes - Calamintha
690 and following - Minuartia
737 - Paronychia

[papapoly]

Dear Hoy, Lesley and Gabriela,

Thank you so much for the identifications.  I am at work so, I cannot look back and make a note of your identifications. 

Gabriela, yes, I now remember, it is a Paronychia sp.  Its flowers are so papery.

George