Flowers
Flora
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| Scientific name: |
Senecio scopolii Hoppe ex Hornsch. ex Bluff & Fingerh. |
| Family: |
Asteraceae |
| Italian name: |
Senecione di Scopoli |
| Croatian name: |
Kostris |
| German name: |
Scopoli-Kreuzkraut |
| Slovene name: |
Scopolijev grint |
Senacio scopolii
Hoppe
Senecione di Scopoli - Kostris
The plant is perennial, 25-50 cm high, with lower leaves ovate, upper leaves lanceolate, inflorescence always with only one flower head. The flowers are lemon coloured with flower head 40-50 mm broad. It grows at margins and glades of woods and in karst heaths, and flowering from April to June.
It grows in the north of Istria: scattered in the territory of Trieste, Cicceria / Cicarija and in the territory of the Monte Maggiore/Ucka gora, rare in the Berchinia/Brkini, hinterland of Fiume/Rijeka, gulf of Trieste and in the gulf of Fiume/Rijecki zaljev.
Photographed by:
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Dr. Ulrike Starmühler on 19.05.1997 in the Cicceria/Cicarija on the way from the Poklon saddle to the Alpe grande/Planik in 940 m alt.
Courtesy of:
Dr.
Walter Starmühler
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A-8020 Graz
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Created: Wednesday,
August 21, 2002; Last updated: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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