Trip to mnt Olympus, Plants to identify

[papapoly]

I went yesterday on a trip to mnt Olympus climbing on the Western side up to 2760 m.

Still too early for most plants.  I need some help on identifying some plants.

First, next 5 pics are Corydalis sp.  This one is not solida.  It is very short, 4-5 cm.  It occurs only above the 2500 m line.

Please, can anyone identify the species?

George Papapolymerou

[papapoly]

Pics 11, 113 and 212 are from 2600 m.  They look like a Draba sp.  I am not sure.

Pic 343 is from 2000 m.  Different leaves, different anthers and style.

[papapoly]

Next two species look like saxifragas.

Pics 106 and 108 from 2600 m

Pics 116, 121 and 183, yellow sp, from 2700 m.

George

[Lesley Cox]

I'm wondering if your first yellows are not a draba but maybe an alyssum?

Perhaps those as saxifraga, (the yellows) are a draba?

[Gabriela]

I went yesterday on a trip to mnt Olympus climbing on the Western side up to 2760 m.

George Papapolymerou

Hi George,
Next time you go take me with you

Corydalis parnassica
Saxifraga sempervivum (red) and close to it probably Draba compacta - I may be wrong.

First ones I also think not a Draba, but it's late and nothing else comes to my mind.

[Lori S.]

Perhaps those as saxifraga, (the yellows) are a draba?

Yes, not Saxifraga given that they have 4 petals, and they do look like Draba.

[Pauli]

The Corydalis should be C. blanda ssp. olympica
111, 113 &212 is Allyssum handelii
343 perhaps an Erysimum
The Sax 106 and 108 is S. sempervivioides
116, 121 & 183 is a Draba perhaps athoa

This is my humble opinion....

[papapoly]

Thank you all.

From your precious feedback and comments and searching photos on the internet:

pics 111, 113 and 212 are Alyssum handelii

pics 106 and 108 are Saxifraga sempervivum

pics: 116, 121 and 183: PROBABLY Draba athoa

George

[papapoly]

Also, one more.  I believe it is Saxifraga scardica.  I found this one at 2200 m.

PS  In 2-4 weeks most alpine flowers will be flowering.  Gentiana verna was in bud.  In some places it is growing profusely.

George

[Pauli]

Saxifraga scardica,

waiting for Sax. spruneri, the third Popophyllum Saxifraga that occurs on Olympus

[Gabriela]

Also, one more.  I believe it is Saxifraga scardica.  I found this one at 2200 m.

PS  In 2-4 weeks most alpine flowers will be flowering.  Gentiana verna was in bud.  In some places it is growing profusely.
George

I look fw to see Gentiana verna carpets flowering George! if you could add a bit more details about where precisely you are going on Mt. Olympus, how to get there....it would be great.

Maybe this thread can be moved to Places to travel? please Maggi?

[Maggi Young]

Good idea, Gabriela - I have done that.   

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I want to show you some more plants from this same trip (Western side of mount Olympus) I took on June 3rd.  I am sorry for not concluding earlier.

Exactly one month later I went in the same area (up to 2817) and saw different plants.  This will be coming in another Post.

On June 12 I went to the Eastern side up to 2300 m.  This will also be coming in another Post.

Pics 005 and 008: Globularia sp., 2100 m
Pic 33: Several sp on the slope up at about 2200 m but, mostly violas and ranunculus
Pic 036: Aethionema (?) sp.
Pic 052: Centaurea sp., possibly the white form of Centaurea triumphetii

George

[papapoly]

Next, from about 2300-2500 m.

pic 055: Myosotis alpestris
pic 060: Gentiana verna in bud
pic 043: Veronica thessala
pic 090: the wild goats of mount Olympus.  They not not doing much damage.  The damage is done by the wild horses which, lately, in the past 10-15 years, have multiplied.
pic 126: Veronica thessala, but from 2700 m, forming mats of about 2 m.

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pics 131 and 192: unidentified sp.  Short, about 5 cm tall and beautiful.  I tried to identify it by looking up flora of mount Olympus but I could not find anything to match.

pic 292: Gentiana verna in bud and in flower (2360 m), later on (July) exploding in flower forming large colonies at 2700 m.  Prefers meadows but also grows in gravel.

pics 150 and 152: Crocus veluchensis at 2760 m.  Not too many flowers.  In mid May at 2400 m the meadows are full of Crocus veluchensis.