http://botany.cz/en The World of Plants, herbarium with photos, catalogue of localities, endangered and protected plants. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:23:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Syn.: Helleborus hyemalis L. Family: Ranunculaceae Juss. Distribution: The Winter Aconite is native to Southeastern Europe and Western Asia, and has been introduced into North America. Habitat: In Southern Europe it grows in damp deciduous forests, also in meadows, up to an altitude of 1 200 meters above sea level. Widely cultivated ... http://botany.cz/en/eranthis-hyemalis/ Family: Alliaceae Agardh Distribution: A native of western and central Asia, Caucasus. Naturalized in a number of places in Europe, in Czechia for the first time documented in 1867 in Prague and central Bohemia. Habitat: It grows in light woodlands, in half-shady places, on damp or semi-arid soils. Description: A perennial herb with ... http://botany.cz/en/allium-paradoxum/ Syn.: Chrysocoma linosyris L., Crinitina linosyris (L.) Soják, Crinitaria linosyris (L.) Less., Linosyris vulgaris Cass. Family: Asteraceae Martinov Distribution: European species - Britain, Middle, Southern and Eastern part of the continent, to Southern Scandinavia in the North, also Asia Minor and Northwestern Africa. Habitat: It grows on sunny rocks and stony slopes, ... http://botany.cz/en/aster-linosyris/ Family: Primulaceae Vent.; Myrsinaceae R. Br. Distribution: The Sea-milkwort is a circumpolar species, it is found along the coasts, but also on inland salt meadows of Europe and Asia (from Russia and Middle Asia to China and Japan), also in Northern America. Habitat: It grows on the banks of rivers, cliffs, marshy ... http://botany.cz/en/glaux-maritima/ Do you often walk across bridges? The life without bridges would make our existence too single bank by walking along only one side of the river. This small piece of the universe, whose purpose is apparently nothing more than a path that leads you to the people on the other ... http://botany.cz/en/prague-charles-bridge/ Syn.: Vinca humilis Salisb., Vinca intermedia Tausch, Vinca ellipticifolia Stokes, Vinca acutiflora Bertol. ex Koch Family: Apocynaceae Juss. Distribution: European species - from Northwestern Spain to Ukraine and Russian Federation. The species is cultivated and naturalized in the British Isles, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, China (Jiangsu), United States and South America. ... http://botany.cz/en/vinca-minor/ Family: Ericaceae Juss. Distribution: Mountains of Europe - Pyrenees, Alps, Jura, Northern Apennines, Dinarides. It has been introduced to the Bohemian Massif (Králický Sněžník). Habitat: It grows on grassy meadows, mountain pastures and stony slopes, in woodland margins, on acid soils, from mountains to alpine altitudinal zone (up to 2840 metres above ... http://botany.cz/en/rhododendron-ferrugineum/ Syn.: Sempervivum glaucum Ten., Sempervivum schottii Baker, non C. B. Lehm. et Schnittsp., Sempervivum andreanum Wale, Sempervivum arvernense Lecoq et Lamotte, Sempervivum alpinum Griseb. et Schenk Family: Crassulaceae DC. Distribution: Mountains of Western, Central and Southern Europe, from Pyrenees to Alps, Apennines and Dinarides. It has been also introduced to many others ... http://botany.cz/en/sempervivum-tectorum/ Syn.: Digitalis ambigua Murray Family: Scrophulariaceae Juss.; Plantaginaceae (s. l.) Distribution: Southern, Middle and Eastern Europe, Asia Minor and Western Siberia, and it has been introduced into North America. Habitat: It grows in deciduous woods and glades, on mountain meadows, from foothills to mountains. Description: A perennial herb with an erect and unbranched stem, ... http://botany.cz/en/digitalis-grandiflora/ Family: Primulaceae Vent.; Myrsinaceae R. Br. Distribution: The Mediterranean Basin - from Southern France and Algeria across Corsica, Sardinia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia to Greece. Cyclamen repandum has several subspecies (C. r. subsp. repandum, subsp. peloponnesiacum, subsp. rhodense). Habitat: It grows in deciduous and Pine woodlands, in woodland margins. Description: A perennial herb with ... http://botany.cz/en/cyclamen-repandum/ Syn.: Himantoglossum hircinum (L.) Spreng. subsp. adriaticum (H. Baumann) Sundermann Family: Orchidaceae Juss. Distribution: Panonic and Submediterranean species - Northern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Moravia. Habitat: It grows in dry grasslands, in shrubs and woodland margins, on limestone soils, from lowlands to foothills. Description: A perennial herb with an erect stem, 30–80 ... http://botany.cz/en/himantoglossum-adriaticum/ Syn.: Satyrium hircinum L., Orchis hircina Crantz, Loroglossum hircinum (L.) L. C. Richard, Aceras hircinum (L.) Lindl. Family: Orchidaceae Juss. Distribution: Western and Southwestern Europe, Northwestern Africa - from Spain eastwards to Italy and the Balkans, to England and Germany in the north. Habitat: It grows in woodland margins, in dry meadows and ... http://botany.cz/en/himantoglossum-hircinum/ Syn.: Orchis angustifolia var. lapponica Laest. ex Hartm., Dactylorhiza pseudocordigera (Neumann) Soó, Orchis lapponica (Laest. ex Hartm.) Rchb. fil., Orchis pseudocordigera Neumann, Dactylorhiza traunsteineri (Rchb.) Soó subsp. lapponica (Hartm.) Soó, Dactylorhiza cruenta (O. F. Müll.) Soó subsp. lapponica (Hartm.) E. Nelson Family: Orchidaceae Juss. Distribution: Scandinavian Arctic-Alpine plant species, also Carpathians. The ... http://botany.cz/en/dactylorhiza-lapponica/ Syn.: Dactylorhiza incarnata (L.) Soó var. ochroleuca Boll, Dactylorhiza incarnata (L.) Soó subsp. ochroleuca (Wustnei ex Boll) P. F. Hunt et Summerh., Dactylorhiza incarnata (L.) Soó var. straminea (Rchb. fil.) Soó Family: Orchidaceae Juss. Distribution: East Anglia, Middle Europe, Southern Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Northern Ukraine. Habitat: It grows on wet meadows, moors ... http://botany.cz/en/dactylorhiza-ochroleuca/ Syn.: Ophrys fuciflora (F. W. Schmidt) Moench subsp. pollinensis E. Nelson, Ophrys exaltata Ten. subsp. sundermanni Soó, Ophrys crabronifera Mauri subsp. sundermanni (Soó) Del Prete, Ophrys crabronifera Mauri subsp. pollinensis (E. Nelson) H. Baumann et R. Lorenz, Ophrys argolica H. Fleischm. subsp. biscutella (O. et E. Danesch) Kreutz Family: Orchidaceae Juss. Distribution: ... http://botany.cz/en/ophrys-biscutella/