Echium albicans

English: White-leaved Bugloss
Nederlands:
Español: Viborera blanca - Viborera andaluza
Français:
Deutsch:

Family: Boraginaceae - Borage family
Flowering time: April-August
Height: 20-70cm
Altitude: 100-2500m
Colour: red, violet, purple
Flower: corolla 15-26 mm with protruding stamens
Leaves: from linear to narrowly oblong-lanceolate with numerous hairs
Habitat: sandy and open areas, rocky dolomite, limestone slopes
Distribution: endemic of Andalusian mountains






Notes: The numerous hairs give Echium albicans a gray or white shade. Colours of the flowers range from pink to bright red and from violet to purple, depending on age and degree of withering. White-leaved Bugloss can invade roadsides of gravelly mountain roads and forest tracks in Andalusia.

Related key words: PR-A 19 Cuesta del Desmayo, PR-A 21 Arenales del Trevenque, Cumbres Verdes, Jardín botánico Hoya de Pedraza, Jardín botánico de la Cortijuela, Sierra Nevada, Sierra de Tejada, Almijara, Sierra de Cázulas, Sierra de Huétor, Granada, Serranía de Ronda, Málaga, Andalucía, Andalusië, Spain

Aristolochia baetica

English: Andalusian Dutchman's Pipe - Pipe Vine
Nederlands:
Español: Candiles - Aristoloquia de Andalucía - Candilillos - Candies
Français:
Deutsch: Südspanische Osterluzei

Family: Aristolochiaceae - Birthwort family
Flowering time: autumn-early spring
Height: 5m (vine)
Altitude: to 800m
Colour: purple, brownish-red
Leaves: blue-green, heart-shaped
Habitat: semi-shade in thickets, edges of woods, streamsides
Distribution: southeastern and eastern Spain, southern Portugal







Note: Aristolochia baetica is an evergreen climber that clambers into shrubs or trees.

Related key words: Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Alpujarras, Sierra de las Nieves

Scrophularia sambucifolia

English: Elder-leaved Figwort
Nederlands: Reuzenhelmkruid
Español: Hierba vaquera
Français: Scrofulaire à feuilles de sureau
Deutsch:

Family: Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Flowering time: March-April
Height: 40-80cm
Altitude:
Colour: orange, red
Leaves:
Habitat: moist and shady places
Distribution: Iberian Peninsula and north Africa







Notes: Elder-leaved Figwort is a fairly abundant roadside plant in south-western Spain. In the Netherlands and France Scrophularia sambucifolia is offered as a garden plant.

Related key words: Andalucía, Andalusia, Andalusië, Tarifa, Grazalema

Epipactis atrorubens

English: Dark Red Helleborine - Royal Helleborine
Nederlands: Bruinrode wespenorchis
Español: Heleborina rojo oscuro
Français: Épipactis pourpre noirâtre - Épipactis rouge sombre
Deutsch: Braunrote Stendelwurz

Family: Orchidaceae - Orchid family 
Flowering time: May - August
Height: 20-70cm
Altitude: to 2400m
Colour: deep purle red
Habitat: dry pastures, woods, rocky places, sand-dunes, generally calcareous soils
Distribution: Throughout Europe, except in the far north and rare in the Mediterranean region.
Notes: In the Netherlands this fragrant species is on the ´Rode lijst van planten´. One of the last places where it has been recorded is on the calcareous grasslands of the province of Limburg.



 

Related key words: Pyrenees, Pyreneeën, Pirineos, Ordesa, Senda de los Cazadores (Torla), Picos de Europa, Parador-Monte Oroel (Jaca), Barranco El Chaté (Broto), San Martín-Panillo (Graus), Heemtuin Tenellaplas Rockanje

Papaver rhoeas

English: Common Poppy - Corn poppy - Red poppy
Nederlands: Grote klaproos
Español: Amapola silvestre
Français: Coquelicot
Deutsch: Klatschmohn - Mohnblume - Klatschrose

Family: Papaveraceae - Poppy family
Flowering time: May-August
Height: 0,20-0,60cm
Altitude: to 1800m
Colour: red, scarlet
Habitat: cultivated fields, waste places, field boundaries, roadsides
Distribution: native of most countries of Europe








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Related key words: Rotterdam, Vlindertuin Waalre, Alpujarras, finca, butterfly, London