Crocus-vernus-ssp-vernus_55
Crocus vernus ssp. vernus (L.) Hill, syn.: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill, Crocus sativus var. vernus L., Crocus napolitanus Mordant & Loisel.
Family: Iridaceae
EN: Spring Crocus, Dutch Crocus, DE: Gewöhnlicher Frülings-Safran, Gewöhnlicher Frülings-Krokus
Slo: spomladanski žefran
Dat.: Feb. 20.2020
Lat.: 46.33637 Long.: 13.54153 (WGS84)
Code: Bot_1273/2020_DSC02080
Habitat: Mixed wood; hardwood, broadleaf tress dominant; moderately inclined mountain slopes; south aspect; cretaceous clastic (flysh) bedrock; humid and relatively warm place; mostly in shade or half-shade; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: soil.
Place: Bovec basin; northwest of 'Jezerca' place, west of Bovec; East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comment: Crocus vernus ssp. vernus is a common plant in Slovenia and one of the earliest spring flower growing mainly in light woods but also on meadows. On some spots flowers appear in massive numbers, which color forest ground patches completely violet. Where it is intermixed with other blooming flowers it provides particularly magnificent vistas. Such spot is west of Bovec, where it appears in thousands and thousands. There, it is accompanied by white Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) and Spring Snowflakes (Leucojum vernum). All three plants have bulbs and love quite humid habitat. This is assured by flysh bedrock at this site. This rock keeps rain water much longer than surrounding limestone or dolomite bedrock, which most of Julian Alps are composed of.
Ref.:
(1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 754.
(2) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1092.
(3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1025.
Crocus-vernus-ssp-vernus_55
Crocus vernus ssp. vernus (L.) Hill, syn.: Crocus vernus (L.) Hill, Crocus sativus var. vernus L., Crocus napolitanus Mordant & Loisel.
Family: Iridaceae
EN: Spring Crocus, Dutch Crocus, DE: Gewöhnlicher Frülings-Safran, Gewöhnlicher Frülings-Krokus
Slo: spomladanski žefran
Dat.: Feb. 20.2020
Lat.: 46.33637 Long.: 13.54153 (WGS84)
Code: Bot_1273/2020_DSC02080
Habitat: Mixed wood; hardwood, broadleaf tress dominant; moderately inclined mountain slopes; south aspect; cretaceous clastic (flysh) bedrock; humid and relatively warm place; mostly in shade or half-shade; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 450 m (1.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: soil.
Place: Bovec basin; northwest of 'Jezerca' place, west of Bovec; East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comment: Crocus vernus ssp. vernus is a common plant in Slovenia and one of the earliest spring flower growing mainly in light woods but also on meadows. On some spots flowers appear in massive numbers, which color forest ground patches completely violet. Where it is intermixed with other blooming flowers it provides particularly magnificent vistas. Such spot is west of Bovec, where it appears in thousands and thousands. There, it is accompanied by white Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) and Spring Snowflakes (Leucojum vernum). All three plants have bulbs and love quite humid habitat. This is assured by flysh bedrock at this site. This rock keeps rain water much longer than surrounding limestone or dolomite bedrock, which most of Julian Alps are composed of.
Ref.:
(1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 754.
(2) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 1092.
(3) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 1025.