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Seseli gracile Waldst. et Kit.

Flora Europaea perennial, H xeric, calciphyle saxicole rarely a steppe xeric grassland plant from the forest-steppe (rare) up to the upper nemoral belt south-western Carpathian (Apuseni Mountains, Banat Mountains, western Meridional Carpathians, Serbian Carpathians); a range which is much like the one of the congeneric but not closely related Seseli rigidum Waldst. et Kit. Stipio pulcherrimae - Festucetalia pallentis R3402-3403 saxicole calciphyle habitats, rare in the other R34s xeric steppe grasslands from Transylvania       This is one of the most typical species for the low altitude calcareous mountains from the western half of Romania. Cheile Intregalde, Trascau Mountains, Alba county, July 2005. dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net A totally unusual relic small population of this plant which is a common inhabitant of the calcareous low altitude massifs from the Apuseni and Banat Mountains and of the western Meridional Carpathians. It was found in a steppe xeric grassland from the forest-steppe of the Transylvanian Plain, near Iuriu de Campie, on Carligatele Hill, in August 2008. It was once however mentioned from the xeric grasslands of the Transylvanian Basin, especially in the XIXth century. Seemingly the plant massively dissappeared from this area in the last century. dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com