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Asphodeline lutea (L.) Rchb.

 

 

Flora Europaea

the original Linnean specimen

xeric steppe species, geophyte, 2n=28, diploid

Paliureto-Carpinion orientalis, Festucion valesiacae, Pimpinello-Thymion zygioidis

 

 

 

 

A steppe xeric species from the eastern Mediterranean up to Iran. See here some mages of the related white flowered glaucous spectacular Asphodeline damascena (Boiss.) Baker.

In Romania this species occur only in a few localities in southern Dobrogea, Constanta county.

Constanta county, May 2010.

dr. Fagaras Marius, marius_fagaras@yahoo.com

 

 

Images taken from outside Romania, in Bulgaria, in the xeric steppe grasslands from the plateau of Cape Caliacra, near the shore of the Black Sea. April 2012.

dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.net

 

 

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