Sedum mucizonia

English:
Nederlands:
Español: Uña de gato - Uña de pajarito
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Family: Crassulaceae - Stonecrop family
Flowering time: April-August
Height: 5-15cm
Altitude: 100-2500m
Colour: pink
Flower: 4-6mm
Leaves: 7-15mm, pubescent, oblong, rounded
Habitat: cracks of rocks, old walls, pastures
Distribution: central and southern part of the Iberian Peninsula
Synonyms: Cotyledon mucizonia - Cotyledon hispida - Mucizonia hispida





Notes: Sedum mucizonia can only be found in central and southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal, and north-west Africa

Related key words: Junta de los Rios Bérchules, Nigüelas, Alpujarras, Vereda de la Estrella, Mirador de Canales, Mirador de Trevélez, Los Atalayones Dílar, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië

Trifolium stellatum

English: Starry Clover - Star Clover - Starry-headed trefoil
Nederlands: Sterklaver
Español: Trébol estrellado
Français: Trèfle étoilé
Deutsch: Stern-Klee

Family: Fabaceae - Leguminosae - Legume family - Pea family
Flowering time: March-July
Height: 10-25cm
Altitude: to 1500m
Colour: pink, sometimes reddish or yellowish
Flower: 4-12mm, borne in terminal solitary globose heads
Leaves: leaflets oval, notched, margins and veins bright green
Habitat: roadsides, stony places, waste ground, cultivated fields
Distribution: the Mediterranean region, including the Canary Islands






Notes: Trifolium stellatum has become naturalised in south-eastern Great Britain. This plant is easily identified by its starry calyces.

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

Anagallis tenella

English: Bog Pimpernel
Nederlands: Teer guichelheil
Español: Hierba gallinera - Murrones
Français: Mouron délicat - Mouron grêle
Deutsch: Zarte Gauchheil

Family: Primulaceae - Primrose family
Flowering time: May-September (northern Europe), April-June (southern Europe)
Height: 5-20cm
Altitude: to 1500m
Colour: pink, occasionally white
Flower: 6-10mm, borne on long slender stalks
Leaves: mostly opposite, rounded or elliptical, short-stalked
Habitat: damp habitats, dune slacks, boggy and peaty heaths, moor grass, rush pastures
Distribution: western, central and southern Europe
Synonym: Lysimachia tenella





Notes: Anagallis tenella is cultivated in gardens. The flowers of Bog Pimpernel open widely only in sunshine. Anagallis tenella is on the Dutch Red List and  Belgium Red List of vascular plants.

Related key words: Heemtuin Tenellaplas Rockanje, Nederlandse Rode Lijst, Vlaamse Rode Lijst, Jerez del Marquesado, Lanjarón, Güéjar de la Sierra, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Picos de Europa

Cephalanthera rubra

English: Red Helleborine
Nederlands: Rood Bosvogeltje
Español: Sello de nuestra señora
Français: Céphalanthère rouge - Céphalanthère rose
Deutsch: Rote Waldvöglein - Purpur-Waldvöglein

Family: Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Flowering time: May-July
Height: 10-60cm
Altitude: to 1800m
Colour: bright pink, purplish-pink, rarely white
Flower: 2-12 flowers, sepals and petals narrowly pointed
Leaves: 5-8, dark green, oblong to lanceolate, pointed
Habitat: forest, woodland clearings, scrub, pathsides, shady rocky slopes
Distribution: eastern, southern and central Europe






Notes: Cephalanthera rubra is a protected species in most European countries and on the European Red List of vascular plants (Least Concern). In the Netherlands it can no longer be found in the wild, the last observation was in the Biesbosch in 1989. Since then, in this country only two plants have been coming into bloom in the botanical garden in Rockanje. In the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain it is also a threatened species with one population of less than a hundred plants in the Sierra de Mecina in the Granada province at an altitude of 1200m. In Andalucía it can also be found in most other provinces: Cádiz, Málaga, Córdoba, Jaén, and Almería. Cephalanthera longifolia is also a threatened species, but more common than Cephalanthera rubra.

Related key words: Heemtuin Tenellaplas Rockanje, Pitres, Sierra de Mecina, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, Europese Rode Lijst, Barranco de Aguerri (Hecho), Peña Oroel (Jaca), Ordesa (Torla), Pyrenees, Pyreneeën, Pirineos, Picos de Europa, Alps

Polygala boissieri

English:
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Español: Polígala - Polígala rosada
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Family: Polygalaceae - Milkwort family
Flowering time: April-August
Height: to 40cm
Altitude: 900-2100m
Colour: pink, white
Flower: lower petals are not hidden
Leaves: basal leaves obovate or oblanceolate
Habitat: mountains, limestone-dolomite areas
Distribution: a number of mountain chains in Andalusia
Synonyms: Polygala rosea auct. hisp. - Polygala nicaeensis subsp. caesalpini





Notes: Polygala boissieri was named after the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885). In the Sierra Nevada in southern Spain it can be found next to for example Erodium boissieri and wild peonies (Paeonia broteroi and Paeonia coriacea).

Related key words: Trevenque, Jardín bótanico de la Cortijuela, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Sierra de Gádor, Sierra de Los Filabres, Almería, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Spain, butterfly, Milkwort, Vleugeltjesbloem, Kreuzblume

Dictamnus hispanicus

English: Burning Bush - False Dittany - White Dittany - Gas Plant - Fraxinella
Nederlands: Vuurwerkplant - Essenkruid
Español: Tarraguillo - Gitam - Hierba gitanera - Fresnillo - Dictamo - Timón real
Français: Fraxinelle - Petit frêne - Buisson ardent
Deutsch: Aschwurz - Brennender Busch - Weisser Diptam

Family: Rutaceae - Rue family
Flowering time: May-July
Height: 30-100cm
Altitude: to 1300m
Colour: pink, pale purple, white; dark veins
Flower: five-petalled, 10 long projecting stamens
Leaves: resemble those of an ash tree
Habitat: warm, open woodland habitats
Distribution: southwest of the Iberian Peninsula
Synonym: Dictamnus albus





Notes: Dictamnus hispanicus has a very fragrant, lemony aroma. This perennial plant secretes volatile oils that may turn the air around it inflamable in hot and still weather. All plant parts of Burning Bush are slightly toxic and may irritate the skin. Dictamnus albus has several geographical variants of which Dictamnus hispanicus in the southwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula is an example. It is a rare species in the different geographical zones where it occurs. Some people collect parts of this plant that can be used as one of the ingredients of anisette. This consitutes a serious threat for this species. Numerous varieties and cultivars have been selected for garden use.

Related key words: El Hervidero, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Anís estrellado

Ophrys scolopax

English: Woodcock Bee Orchid - Woodcock Orchid - Woodcock Ophrys
Nederlands: Sniporchis
Español: Abejera becada - Orquídea becada - Orquídea perdiz - Abejeta
Français: Ophrys bécasse
Deutsch: Schnepfen-Ragwurz

Family: Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Flowering time: March - June
Height: 15 to 65cm
Altitude: to 2000m
Colour: sepals pink or purplish-violet, rarely green or white
Flower: petals usually the same colour as the sepals; lip 8-12mm
Leaves: basal leaves lanceolate; stems leaves narrower and more pointed
Habitat: maquis, garrigue, meadows, open woodland
Distribution: around the Mediterranean
Synonym: Ophrys scolopax subsp. scolopax





Notes: Ophrys scolopax has many varieties, forms and subspecies.

Related key words: El Hervidero, Sierra Nevada, Granada, Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Las Ripas (Hecho), Las Blancas (Borau), Campodarbe (Boltaña), Pirineos, Pyrenees, Pyreneeën, Picos de Europa