-
Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia
-
Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
-
Wisconsin, United States
-
Asterolasia grandiflora was one of the first rare flora species we discovered in Sept 1997 on Catchment Road, Wandoo NP, York. (PERTH 04958071) Jean recognized this as a significant flora species and this was identified at WA Herbarium. We were not licensed to collect rare flora at that time so Les (JL)Robson, Kim Kershaw and Allan Wright were the CALM conservation officers who were designated to record this new population. We were quite excited about this and even asked the gentlemen if they wanted a hand to count up the plants. No they didn't! The boss guy told us to go away and find some more somewhere. We have been looking for rare plants ever since.These are particularly attractive plants when flowering. They are probably our favourites. Over the following years during September we often stop to see how the plants in this population are faring. In 1997 there were something like 1500 plants in the population. Since then the population had been burned and had suffered from extremely dry seasons. Last year we were barely able to find 30 plants. Other associated flora species in the population also seemed to be struggling to return since the last burn. This year's rain has been a godsend. Yesterday we were amazed to see how many Asterolasia grandiflora plants were already beginning to flower, colouring the rocky slope with showy pink flowers.We doubt that there are as many plants as in 1997 but never the less this will be the best since then. Photo: Jean
-
Hotham Heights, Victoria, Australia
-
Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
-
Orinda, California, United States
-
Charcos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
-
Chiriqui, Panama
-
Astragalus onobrychis L.DE: Esparsetten Tragant, Esparsetten StragelSlo.: dolgojadrni grahovecDat.: June 27. 2010Lat.: 46.33443 Long.: 13.63594Code: Bot_432/2010_IMG1159Habitat: Larger openings in riparian wood, Picea abies and Salix eleagnos dominant; alluvial, shallow, stony and sandy, calcareous ground; flat terrains; full sun, locally dry place; exposed to direct rain; elevation 425-430 m (1.390-1.410 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and sand.Place: Lower Trenta valley, left bank of river Soa, near confluence with Lepenica stream, east of 'Za otoki' place, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Astragalus onobrychis is west Asian - east European plant growing in many parts of the Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, Dinaric and south Balkan Peninsula mountains. The warmth loving plant hadn't been known in the alpine and prealpine phytogeographical region of Slovenia until recently. In 2008 it was discovered on an isolated, locally sunny and warm place in Trenta valley at the mouth of Lepena side valley. It is now showing its beautiful violet flowers year after year on more or less the same place. For now this is its only known location in Julian Alps and among the most northern in Slovenia.Ref.:(1) Personal communication with Dr. Igor Dakskobler, Natural History Institute Jovan Hadi, SAZU.(2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 576.(3) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 313. (4) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 848.
-
-
-
Canon Powershot SX100 ISGirraween National ParkToo early for the flowers, but this is what the buds look like.For more of our Girraween photos, go to our website:
www.rymich.com/girraween/
-
A bladderpod of southern Chile and Argentina, named for indigenous peoples.
-
Hluhluwe Game Reserve, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, SOUTH AFRICA
-
Jatropha variifolia (= Jatropha heterophylla Pax) with its variation in leaf shapes. Plants from Goba, Maputo province in Mozambique.
-
Spring Hammock Trailer Park, Florida, United States
-
Christmas, Florida, United States
-
-
July 2010, Huachuca Oaks Camp, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona
-
Arizona, United States
-
Florida, United States
-
Gladstone, Colorado, United States
-