Pulsatilla-montana_13b

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Pulsatilla montana (Hoppe) Rchb., syn.: Anemone montana Hoppe, Pulsatilla vulgarisEN: Mountain Pasqueflower, DE: Berg-KchenschelleSlo.: gorski kosmatinecDat.: Mar. 11. 2011Lat.: 45.83438 Long.: 13.77368Code: Bot_493/2011_IMG3916Habitat: grassland, pasture, mixed hardwood in the vicinity; almost flat terrain; open sunny, dry place; calcareous ground; elevation 295 m (970 feet); average precipitations 1.400-1.500 mm/year, average temperature 11-13 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: About 1 km north of village Mali dol, Komen Karst region, Primorska, Slovenia EC.Comment: Pulsatilla montana is a poisonous but incredible beautiful plant with its deep complementary colored and large, up to 5 cm in diameter, flowers, which are enveloped with silvery hairy garment. It is a South European montane floral element and is absent from most regions of the Alps including Slovenian alpine phytogeographical region. But it grows scattered more southern. In Slovenia this not really rare, but uncommon beauty can be found scattered in country's warmest, southwest part.Pictures shows young, still small plant. During its anthese (time in which a flower fully develops from bud to fruit) it grows constantly and is much taller at the end.Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82/2002 (Regulation of enlisting of endangered plant and animal species onto Red List, Official Gazette of Republic Slovenia, no. 82/2002) (2002). Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.Ref.:(1) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 148.(2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 135. (3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 303.