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The Triglav National Park (TNP), the only Slovenian national park, is named after
Triglav, the highest mountain of Slovenia (2864 m). It extends along the Italian
border and close to the Austrian border in the north-west part of Slovenia. The park
covers 880 square Km, 4 % of the territory of Slovenia. The Park is proud of its pure
waters, deep-cut gorges, remains of virgin forests, richness of biodiversity, being an
Eldorado of mountain flowers, including several endemic plants.
This interactive guide allows the identification of native trees, shrubs and woody
climbers of the Triglav National Park area. The guide includes 159 taxa, the majority
of native woody species, plus some alien but already naturalised species like
Robinia
pseudacacia
and
Ailanthus altissima
. For difficult genera like
Rubus
,
Rosa
and
Salix
only the most common species are treated.
The key is designed to help citizens to learn about the nature in the nature, and is
intended as an educational tool for teachers and students for teaching biology and
science. It was created by the interreg Project SiiT (School-oriented Interactive
Identification Tools: exploring biodiversity in a cross-border area), in collaboration
between the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the
Triglav National Park (Slovenia).
In the annotated Slovenian version, species descriptions are derived from Mala Flora
Slovenije (Martin
č
i
č
et al., 2007), Flora Helvetica (Lauber & Wagner, 1998) and
Drevesne vrste na Slovenskem (Brus, 2004); vulnerability and protection status are
after the Red List of threatened species in Slovenia (Ur. l. RS 82/2002) and the
Decree on protected wild plant species (Ur. l. RS 46/2004).