Flowers of the Northern Agrafa Region in Central Greece, July 10th, 2016

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Lesley, now that I looked at my pics of my July 3rd trip, I realised that a nice species, which I thought it was a salvia, it is probably a scutellaria species.  I found it growing higher than the 2300 m line.

I want to conclude my trip to Agrafa.

pics: 235 and 236: growing in clearings by the road. 

pics: 239, 249 and 256: unidentified sp., growing in vertical cliffs, about 20-25 cm tall.  Nice leaves.

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pic 261: A sedum (?) sp.

pics: 282, 276 and 279: Digitalis sp.

pic 291: unidentified sp.  20 cm tall, small but nice flowers.

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Finally, on my return at about 1100-1200m:

pics 294, 305 and 314: Acanthus spinosus or Acanthus hungaricus, past its best

and

pics: 327 and 333: thorny, tall (2,5 m) sp. with small white flowers

George

[Tristan_He]

379 and 380: This looks like one of the nice Thymus that you get in southern Europe, and that always seem to die in our wet winters. It’s lovely! T. boissieri perhaps?

239, 249, 256 again looks like a Scabiosa.

261 Sedum album?

282, 276 looks like Digitalis ferruginea.

294 looks more like Acanthus dioscoridis (or possibly A. syriacus) to me. But does this occur in that area? It certainly isn’t hungaricus, could just about be spinosus allowing for wild plants being dwarfer and spinier.

327, a Cirsium of some sort perhaps?

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for more most interesting pictures George. Yes, the Acantholimon is the gem, without a doubt. I saw a species further south in 1993 but I don't think it was A. graecum. Can't remember the name now.

Acinos was the name I tried to remember in your other topic, when I suggested Thymus. All I could think of was Arctous and I knew that wasn't right.