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Flora Of The Alps
__NOTOC__ The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south. The flora of the Alps are diverse. In the mountains, the vegetation gradually changes with altitude, sun exposure, and location on the mountain. There are five successive life zones, each with distinct landscapes and vegetation characteristics: premontane, montane, subalpine, alpine climate, alpine, and alvar. List of Alpine plants A *''Achillea atrata'' *''Aconitum lycoctonum'' *''Aconitum napellus'' *''Adenostyles alliariae'' *''Adenostyles leucophylla'' *''Agrimonia eupatoria'' *''Alchemilla alpina'' *''Allium insubricum'' *''Androsace alpina'' *''Androsace brevis'' *''Androsace carnea'' *''Anemone vernalis'' *''Antennaria dioica'' *''Aquilegia alpina'' *''Arctostaphylos alpinus'' *''Aren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Flora
Alpine flora may refer to: * Alpine tundra, a community of plants that live at high altitude * Alpine plant Alpine plants are plants that grow in an alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. There are many different plant species and taxon, taxa that grow as a plant community in these alpine tundra. These include perennial g ...s that live within that community * Flora of the Alps {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adenostyles Alliariae
''Adenostyles alliariae'' is herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi .... It is native to southern and Central Europe, Ukraine, and Turkey. Subspecies * ''Adenostyles alliariae'' subsp. ''alliariae'' * ''Adenostyles alliariae'' subsp. ''pyrenaica'' (Lange) P. Fournier Synonyms :*''Adenostyles albifrons'' (L. f.) Rchb. :*''Adenostyles albida'' Cass. :*''Adenostyles albida'' Cass. subsp. ''kerneri'' (Simonk.) Nyman (synonym of subsp. ''alliariae'') :*''Adenostyles albida'' Cass. subsp. ''pyrenaica'' (Lange) Rouy (synonym of subsp. ''hybrida'') :*''Adenostyles alliariae'' (Gouan) A.Kern. subsp. ''pyrenaica'' (Lange) P.Fourn. (synonym of subsp. ''hybrida'') :*''Adenostyles alpina'' (L.) Bluff. & Fingerh :*''Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armeria Alpina
''Armeria alpina'' is a flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae. Description ''Armeria alpina'' can reach a height of . Leaves are simple and mostly hairless. They form dense basal rosettes of about 25 leaves. The flowers are small, with five pink petals. They are grouped into inflorescences at the end of long pedicels. They bloom from July to August. Distribution ''Armeria alpina'' is native to France, Italy, Austria and the Balkan Peninsula and Spain, in the Pyrenees. Habitat This species prefers rocks, gravel and meadows at an elevation above sea level. References Biolib |
Arenaria Pseudofrigida
''Arenaria pseudofrigida'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae. Its native range is Subarctic The subarctic zone is a region in the Northern Hemisphere immediately south of the true Arctic, north of hemiboreal regions and covering much of Alaska, Canada, Iceland, the north of Fennoscandia, Northwestern Russia, Siberia, and the Cair .... References {{Taxonbar, from=Q2860828 pseudofrigida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctostaphylos Alpinus
''Arctous alpina'' ( syn. ''Arctostaphylos alpina''), the alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry or black bearberry, is a dwarf shrub in the heather family Ericaceae. The basionym of this species is ''Arbutus alpina'' . Description ''Arctous alpina'' is a procumbent shrub usually less than high with a woody stem and straggling branches. The leaves are alternate and wither in the autumn but remain on the plant for another year. The leaves are stalked and are oval with serrated margins and a network of veins. They often turn red to scarlet in autumn. The flowers are in groups of two to five, white or pink and urn-shaped and about long. They have five sepals, five fused petals with five small projecting lobes, ten stamens and a single carpel. The fruits are spherical, long, initially green, then red and finally glossy black and succulent when ripe. This plant flowers in June. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquilegia Alpina
''Aquilegia alpina'', often called the alpine columbine or breath of God, is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the western and central Alps. Though rare in its Swiss, Austrian, and Italian range, it is commonly found in the French Maritime Alps. ''A. alpina'' is appreciated for its light blue to blue-purple flowers. The species has been in cultivation for several centuries, but plants sold as ''A. alpina'' are often hybrids with other ''Aquilegia'' species or different columbine species entirely. True ''A. alpina'' plants possess straight or slightly curved nectar spurs, distinguishing it from other species and hybrids with hooked spurs. At long, these spurs are the longest of any Eurasian member of the genus ''Aquilegia''. Description ''Aquilegia alpina'' is a perennial that grows to between and tall. Leaves are biternate and in a basal arrange (growing from the base of the stem). The lower portions of the stems are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antennaria Dioica
''Antennaria dioica'' (mountain everlasting, stoloniferous pussytoes, catsfoot or cudweed) is a Eurasian species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a perennial herb found in cool northern and mountainous regions of Europe and northern Asia (Russia, Mongolia, Japan, Kazakhstan, China (Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Gansu) and the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Description ''Antennaria dioica'' is an evergreen, herbaceous perennial plant growing to 10–20 cm tall, with a rosette of basal spoon-shaped leaves 4 cm long, and 1 cm broad at their broadest near the apex; and smaller leaves arranged spirally up the flowering stems. The flowers are produced in capitula (flowerheads) 6–12 mm diameter with pale pink ray florets and darker pink disc florets. The plant's common name is derived from the flower clusters which are thought to resemble the pads or toes of a cat's paw. It is dioecious, but can also reproduce without fertilisation. It is found in groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anemone Vernalis
''Anemone'' () is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. The genus is closely related to several other genera including '' Anemonoides'', '' Anemonastrum'', '' Hepatica'', and '' Pulsatilla''. Some botanists include these genera within ''Anemone''. Description ''Anemone'' are perennials that have basal leaves with long leaf-stems that can be upright or prostrate. Leaves are simple or compound with lobed, parted, or undivided leaf blades. The leaf margins are toothed or entire. Flowers with 4–27 sepals are produced singly, in cymes of 2–9 flowers, or in umbels, above a cluster of leaf- or sepal-like bracts. Sepals may be any color. The pistils have one ovule. The flowers have nectaries, but petals are missing in the majority of species. The fruits are ovoid to obovoid shap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androsace Carnea
''Androsace laggeri'' (syn. ''Androsace carnea''), the pink rock jasmine, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae, native to the central Pyrenees. As ''Androsace carnea'' subsp. ''laggeri'' it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the British Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). It is based on assessment of the plants' performance under UK growing conditions. It includes the full range of cultivated p .... References laggeri Flora of France Flora of Spain Plants described in 1853 {{Primulaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androsace Brevis
''Androsace brevis'' is an alpine plant in the family Primulaceae, a narrow endemic cushion plant that grows above 2000 m asl on rocky ridges and peaks in a restricted area in the Alps of Northern Italy (Lombardy) and adjacent Switzerland. Following IUCN criteria, its conservation status is Vulnerable (VU). The flowering period is very short, typically lasting about 2 weeks between the end of May and the beginning of June, immediately after snowmelt, when snow still occurs in the vicinity. Genetic diversity and post-glacial history ''Androsace brevis'' forms tight, wind-shorn cushions on acidic to slightly neutral, silica-rich rock ledges and ridges between in the southern Alps, mainly around Lake Como and the neighbouring valleys on the Swiss–Italian border. A population-genetic survey that compared the species with its eastern Alpine relative ''A. wulfeniana'' used amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) markers to probe DNA variation across the whole genome. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Androsace Alpina
''Androsace alpina'', or Alpine rock-jasmine, is an alpine plant, endemic to the Alps. The plant forms distinctive cushion-like mats up to 20 cm across, with small overlapping leaves arranged in rosettes and bearing fine glandular hairs that help conserve water. It inhabits specialized high- alpine environments between 2,500 and 3,200 metres elevation, favouring well-drained limestone or dolomite scree and crevices primarily on south-facing slopes, where its cushion growth form creates a protective microclimate in these harsh conditions. Description The flowers of ''A. alpina'' are white or pink (often both on the same plant), and in the short flowering season can be so densely packed that they completely shade the foliage. The plant forms dense, cushion-like mats that can reach up to 20 cm across, each composed of numerous small, overlapping leaves arranged in tight rosettes. Individual leaves are , measuring about 5–10 mm in length, and bear fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Insubricum
''Allium insubricum'', the Lombardy garlic, is a species of flowering plant endemic to the Lombardy region in northern Italy. It is named for Insubria, the ancient name for the area around present-day Milan. The species is, however, widely cultivated as an ornamental because of its striking flowers. Its ''locus classicus'' is located in Canzo. ''Allium insubricum'' is a bulbous herbaceous perennial belonging to the genus ''Allium'', which includes all the culinary and ornamental onions and garlic. It grows up to tall. It has flat, linear leaves up to 10 mm across, tapering toward the tip. The scape is hooked at the top, so that the umbel as a whole is nodding (hanging downward). The flowers are few, usually no more than five per umbel, but much larger than most other species in the genus. The tepals are rosy pink. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit The Award of Garden Merit (AGM) is a long-established award for plants by the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
