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Silene saxifraga L.

 

 

Flora Europaea

the original Linnean specimen

 

 

 

 

A species endemic for the mountains north from the Mediterranean sea. In Romania it is to be found only in the western Meridional Carpathians and the Banat Mountains.

Biliana calcareous massif, Cerna Mountains, Caras-Severin county, 9th of July 2010.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net

In the photograph above there is the context of the phytocenoses within which this species grows on the rocks below Biliana Mountain: you can see in the picture Dianthus petraeus, Festuca pallens, Aster alpinus, Minuartia graminifolia ssp. hungarica, saxifraga paniculata.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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