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The plant can be found on shady, rocky slopes, on rubble and among shrubs from the lowlands to the montane belt. In
our Alps, it grows only in the Posočje region of the Julian Alps; it is distributed in the Balkans, Southern Alps and
Apennines.
Globularia cordifolia L. – Heart-leaved Globe Daisy
The generic name of this plant derives from the Latin word globulus , meaning
‘a little ball’, due to the inflorescence which indeed, reminds us of a sphere.
Slovenia is home to three species of globe daisies. The Heart-leaved Daisy is a
semi-bush with a creeping stem. All leaves are basal, whicle the flowering stem
is leafless. The inflorescence is globose, the flowers are blue.
As the other species, the heart-leaved daisy adapted to the high-mountain life.
With the lignified cauloids “these plants creep and closely nestle to the ground,
branch out widely on rocks and, by doing so, construct a thick trellis-like
network.” So wrote Ciril Jeglič in his first Juliana Guide in 1963.
The plant thrives on rocks and in crevices, as well as on grassy slopes from
lowlands to highlands. The general distribution extends to the mountains of central and southern Europe.
Grafia golaka (Hacq.) Rchb. – Grafia
The naturalist Balthasar Hacquet carried out research on the Carniolan flora in
the second half of the 18th century. His most significant botanical work,
entitled Plantae alpinae Carniolicae , published in 1782 in Vienna, contained
the description of 12 plants that thrived in the Carnic Alps and in Istria, which
were a in his opinion new species. He named all of them after the places where
they were found and were he made drawings of them.
One of the newly described plants was Athamanta golaka. At a later date, the
species was given the generic name Grafia after the pharmacist and botanist
Žiga Graf, but retained the species name after Mt Golak in Trnovski gozd.
The general distribution extends in the Southeastern Alps, Central Apennines
and in the western part of the Balkans, reaching south up to the Albanian
Prokletije. In Slovenia the species can be found in rocky grasslands and amongst shrubs in the montane belt of the
Kamnik and Julian Alps, in the mountains of Polhov Gradec, on Šmarna gora, and in the Notranjsko and Kočevsko
regions.
Gypsophila repens L. – Creeping Baby's-breath
The generic name of this plant originates from Greek. Gypsos is gypsum,
phileo means ‘I love’. Some species actually thrive on calcareous soils.
the plant has a simple stem and linear, somewhat fleshy, bluish green leaves.
The petals are white or pale pink.
The creeping caby's-breath is one of the plants that can anchor themselves on
unsteady scree. As the main root reaches deep into the rubble, it is one of the
pioneer plants on scree.
It grows on rocks, rubble and in rocky grasslands in the mountains of the Julian
and Kamniško-Savinjske Alps, as well as in the Karavanke mountain chain.
The general distribution extends to the Pyrenees, Apennines, Alps, Jura Mts
and the Carpathians.
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus L. – Lemon (Yellow) Day-lily
The generic name of this plant derives from the Greek hemera (day) and kalòs
(beauty), because the individual flowers are open for a single day only.
The lemon day-lily is an up to one metre tall perennial with grassy green, linear
leaves. The inflorescence consists of six to nine flowers. The tepals are grown
into a tube at the bottom, free in the upper part, forming a funnel-shaped, bright
yellow and pleasantly scented flower.
This plant is reminiscent of lilies; it differs from them by the stem, which is
leafless and not leafy as in the lilies.
It thrives in damp forests and sandy places along waters from the lowlands to
the montane belt all over Slovenia. It has a relatively small range in Slovenia
and northeastern Italy along the foot of the southeastern calcareous Alps.