Saponaria-ocymoides_32

Description:

Saponaria ocymoidesRock SoapwortSlo.: rdea milnica Dat.: June 8. 2013Lat.: 46.49865 Long.: 13.67427Code: Bot_722/2013_IMG3526Habitat: above and in mural stony road side, mixed wood edge, south oriented modestly inclined mountain slope, calcareous ground, fairly in shade, dry place, average precipitations about 2.000 mm/year, average temperatures about 5-7 deg C, elevation 850 m (2.800 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: sandy soil on top of the wall scarp and in crevices of it.Place: road from Ratee (SI) to Trbi (IT) (Tarvisio), midway between settlement Pri Jalnu (Fusine Laghi) and Fuine (Fusine in Val Romana), north side of the road, west of village Ratee, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy Comment: Growing in several cushions in full bloom. On the Red list of endangered and rare plants of Slovenia - marked as a rare plant (R). Quite a rare fund in Slovenia. More common toward the west of Slovenia. In 2001, according to Jogan (2001), Ref.: (3), there were only 5 UTM squares recorded in Slovenia with this plant. It is not an overseen species because of its very noticeable bright pink-red cushions, which can be seen from far when in bloom.Ref.:(1) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 265.(2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 157. (3) N. Jogan (ed.), Gradivo za Atlas flore Slovenije (Materials for the Atlas of Flora of Slovenia), CKSF (2001), p337(4) L.Poldini, Nuovo Atlante corologico delle piante vascolari nel Friuli Venezia Giulia, University of Trieste (2002), p434.