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Geum reptans L.

Flora Europaea the original Linnean specimen is missing from the Linnean Herbarium and the Linnean collections           A typical species for the upper alpine periglacial environments. Due to the rarity and residual nature of them in the Romanian Carpathians this species is very scarce and represented by small populations in our flora as dr. Mihai Puscas states (private correspondence): 'this species has not a wider ecological adaptation (subalpine-alpine) as many other in the high mountains have but it is strictly an upper alpine - subnival element (a fact clearly to be seen in the Alps). Its presence was confirmed nowadays in Romania only in Fagaras Mountains (normally, they are named in the western European geography 'Les Alpes de Transylvanie'), Bucegi and Retezat mountainous areas. Everywhere the populations are punctiform and weak. It was also mentioned from Ciucas Massif and Rodna Mountains near Ineu peak where despite intensive investigations it was never found by me nor by the dedicated botanical researchers of the area like dr. Gheorghe Coldea. The species was mentioned also from Parang Mountains but there are no herbarium specimens from there neither trustworthy recent reports." Significant for the peculiar periglacial nature of the habitats of this species is the assertion of Flora RPR volume 4 - "this species never occurs in (alpine) grasslands." Portita Vistei, Fagaras Mountains, Sibiu county, July 2010. dr. Mihai Puscas mihai.puscas@yahoo.com