Tragopogon porrifolius

English: Purple Salsify - Common Salsify - Oyster plant - Jerusalem Star - Goatsbeard
Nederlands: Paarse morgenster - Boksbaard - Haverwortel - Wilde schorseneer
Español: Salsifí común - Barba de cabra - Barbón
Français: Salsifis cultivé - Salsifis à feuilles de poireau - Salsifis de Provence
Deutsch: Haferwurzel - Habermark - Purpur-Bocksbart - Austernpflanze

Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: April-June (southern Europe), May-August (northern Europe)
Height: 60-120cm
Altitude: to 1700m
Colour: lilac to dull reddish-purple
Flower: flower-heads 25-48mm
Leaves: broad-linear, widened at the base
Habitat: grassy habitats, waysides, cultivated and waste ground
Distribution: native to Mediterranean countries, introduced elsewhere






Notes: Tragopogon porrifolius is a mediterranean plant that has become naturalized in a number of European countries, for example in Denmark , the Netherlands, Sweden and Great Britain. The fleshy rootstocks of Salsify are edible when cooked and the young green shoots can be added to salads.

Related key words: Vereda de la Estrella, Sierra Nevada, finca, Alpujarras, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, Alps

Carduus tenuiflorus

English: Slender Thistle - Slender-flowered Thistle - Sheep Thistle - Shore Thistle
Nederlands: Tengere distel
Español: Cardo
Français: Chardon à petits capitules
Deutsch: Dünnköpfige Distel

Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: May-August
Height: 15-130cm
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Colour: pale pink to bright purple
Flower: small (6-10mm) in compact clusters of 3 or more (up to 20) flowerheads
Leaves: lanceolate, lobed, spiny-margined, white-cottony beneath
Habitat: dry open habitats, roadsides, waste ground, grassy open places, close to the sea
Distribution: native to southern and western Europe and has spread from there to Central Europe






Notes: In the Netherlands Carduus tenuiflorusis has become very rare. One of the few places where it can be found is near the Afsluitdijk in the province of Noord-Holland. It is on the Dutch Red List of vascular plants. On other continents where Carduus tenuiflorus was introduced it is often considered a noxious weed. In the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain where these photographs are taken, three other species can be found: Carduus carlinoides subsp. hispanicus, Carduus platypus subsp. granatensis and Carduus pycnocephalus.

Related key words: Vereda de la Estrella, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Anducía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, butterfly, Euphydryas desfontainii, Spanish Fritillary, insect, Nederlandse Rode Lijst, Wieringen

Carduus platypus subsp. granatensis

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Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: April-August
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Altitude: 800-2000m
Colour: pink
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Habitat: limestone or dolomite substrate, roadsides, mountain grasslands
Distribution: endemic to central and southern Iberian Peninsula
Synonym: Carduus nutans subsp. granatensis





Notes: Carduus platypus subsp. granatensis is not a common species.

Related key words: Thistle, Distel, Cardo, Chardon, Vereda de la Estrella, Jardín Botánico Hoya de Pedraza, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Anducía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, butterfly, Euphydryas aurinia, Marsh Fritillary, insect, Tettigonia viridissima, great Green Bush-Cricket

Rothmaleria granatensis

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Español: Hierba de Rothmaler
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Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: May-June
Height: 5-30cm
Altitude: 1100-1800m
Colour: yellow
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Leaves: basal leaves are arranged in a rosette
Habitat: dolomitic communities, gravelly terrain
Distribution: endemic of Andalusian provinces Málaga en Granada  in southern Spain
Synonym: Haenselera granatensis





Notes: A yellow daisy that is named after the Granada province where it can be found in the Sierra de Alfacar, Sierra de Almijara, Sierra de los Guájares and Sierra Nevada. Rothmaleria granatensis is a threatened species that is included in the Red List of the Vascular Flora of Andalucía

Related key words: PR-A 21 Arenales del Trevenque, Sendero Boca de la Pescá, Jardín botánico de la Cortijuela, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Andalucía, Andalusië, Spain

Hieracium pilosella

English: Mouse-ear Hawkweed
Nederlands: Muizenoor
Español: Vellosilla
Français: Épervière piloselle - Oreille de souris - Oreille de rat - Piloselle de rat
Deutsch: Kleine Habichtskraut - Mausohr-Habichtskraut - Kleines Mauseohr

Family: Asteraceae - Daisy family
Flowering time: May-October
Height: 2-30cm
Altitude: to 3000m
Colour: lemon-yellow
Flower: 20-30mm, solitary with blunt petals, outer florets often red-striped underneath
Leaves: furry, short elliptical, in a basal rosette, often broadest above the middle, untoothed
Habitat: grassy terrain, woods, waste and bare places, hill-slopes, sand-dunes, banks and walls, on dry calcareous soils
Distribution: most European countries





Notes: Like most hawkweed species, Hieracium pilosella shows tremendous variation and is a complex of several dozens subspecies and hundreds of varieties and forms. Mouse-ear Hawkweed favours dry, sunny areas. It grows well on sandy and similarly less fertile ground types. It produces stolons which generate a new rosette at their extremity, each rosette has the possibility of developing into a new clone forming dense mats in open space. The plants medicinal properties (anti-inflamatory) were recognized back in medieval times, though nowadays it is considered a weed in some parts of the world.

Related key words: Rotterdam, Botanische tuin Kralingen, Fort Rammekens Ritthem