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who stated that it grew in the Carniolan mountains, claiming that he saw it on
Mt Slivnica above Lake Cerknica and on Sv. Jošt above Kranj.
The plants is up to 50 cm tall and has long sharp-pointed leaves without
tendrils. Yje flowers are arranged individually or in lateral whorls with up to
six flowers. The petals are sulphur yellow, the pods black.
The species inhabits deciduous (especially beech) forests from the montane to
the subalpine belts all over Slovenia.
The general distribution includes the southeastern calcareous Alps from Lake
Garda to the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, from the Slovenian Karst (Kras) and
Julian Alps to the Lower Austria, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia
and Romania.
Although our vetch may look as nothing special at all, it reminds us every spring of the rich history of our plant
research as well as of Wulfen, who was noteworthy also as a mentor to the Carniolan botanists Karl Zois and Franc
Hladnik.