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rocky grasslands of the Julian and Kamniško-Savinjske Alps and the
Karavanke Mts. The general distribution extends in the Southeastern Alps and
only locally in the Northern calcareous Alps. Most often it can be found at
altitudes between 1,500 and 2,000 metres, only on calcareous soils.
Dianthus sylvestris Wulfen subsp. tergestinus (Rchb.) Hayek – Trieste
Pink Clove
(Dianthus tergestinus)
Slovenia is inhabited by twelve different pink clove species. One of them is
called the Trieste Pink Clove, after the city of Trieste.
From the strongly branched root, rosettes of linear, grooved, rigid leaves are
growing. The stem leaves are opposite and linear. The stem and leaves are
bluish green. The flowers are solitary or arranged in poorly branched
inflorescences; under the calyx, scale-like bracts are present. The five petals
have a milky pink to white (less often bright pink) limb, which may be
unevenly toothed at the top. Clove pinks’ petals have two parts: the upper part
is a widened limb, the lower part a wedge-shaped nail.
In Slovenia, the Trieste Clove has a a scattered distribution in rocky karst
meadows and in rocky terrains of the submediterranean zone of Trnovski gozd
down to Istria, and in the Kočevje area. The plant’s entire distribution extends to the western part of the Balkan
Peninsula, particularly along the coast of the Adriatic Sea and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dictamnus albus L. – Burning Bush
The stem of this up to one metre tall plant is covered with thick glandular hairs.
The leaves are imparipinnate. The large bilaterally symmetrical flowers are
arranged in racemes and have five pink or white petals with darker veins.
The entire plant contains much volatile essential oil, which gives off a pleasant
and powerful lemon scent and is also flammable on hot days, a reason that
explains why the plant is also known as “burning bush”.
The species inhabits rocky sunny slopes at the edges between pastures and
scrubland. In Slovenia, it is most common in the Kras region, but can also be
found in the interior, for example on Šmarna gora and Mt Boč.
Echinops exaltatus Schrad. – Tall Globethistle
The generic name of this plants derives from Greek echinos (hedgehog) and
ops(is) (outer appearance, image). The spherical compound inflorescences are
reminiscent of a (“prickly”) hedgehog!
The plant is up to 2 metres tall and the leaves are covered with rigid trichomes
in the upper surface and are unpleasantly sharp on the margins. The spherical
inflorescences are large, with whitish or greyish flowers in a monofloral head
which is a special feature of this genus.
The tall globethistle can be found along waters, paths, hedges and forest
margins in the prealpine, predinaric, submediterranean and subpannonian
regions. The general distribution extends to NE Italy, Hungary, Bosnia, Serbia
and Bulgaria.
Echinops ritro L. subsp. ruthenicus (M. Bieb.) Nyman – Southern
Globethistle
This up to half a metre tall plant has a white felted stem and pinnate, thorny toothed leaves which are brilliant dark
green above and white-felted beneath. The flowers are arranged in bluish spherical heads. The corolla is dark blue at