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This short-lived perennial is very imporessive, it is 1.5-3 m. tall and has pending, huge flowers. It is rare and protected in northern Israel, growing up to southern Turkey.
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and thats the same plant taken with my pocket camera, totally different and more yellowish colours...
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Gnaphalium sylvaticum is a common small weed in the Caucasus.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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Campanula cymbalaria is a mountainous plant of the Middle East. In N Israel it is extremely rare, found only in Mt Hermon 2200m.
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Gundelia rosea is a newly described species. It grows in the Caucasus and is very close to the common, yellow flowered, Middle Eastern Gundelia tournefortii.
Gundelia is one of the most ancient a
steraceae members, the flowering head is composed of many single flowered heads.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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Campanula cymbalaria is a mountainous plant of the Middle East. In N Israel it is extremely rare, found only in Mt Hermon 2200m.
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and here is the plant in its habitat. The grass is Taeniatherum caput-medusae.
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and the same without flash
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Campanula drabifolia is a small common east Mediterranean annual.
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Gundelia tournefortii is a perennial tumbleweed of the arid Middle East. In the lowlands it blooms in March-April, in the heights of Mt Hermon it blooms in May. It is an ancient element of the Asteraceae family, the flowering head is composed of many single flowered heads. As mentioned before, after drying the plant breaks and tumbles in the fields, thus dispersing the seeds in many locations. The plant's base is edible (called akub) and collected by Arabs for salads and stews. It was over collected and this is why today it is a protected species.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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Campanula erinus is the tiniest bellflower in Israel, it has shy but beautiful flowers.
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I uploaded in May a pic with flowers of Gundelia tournefortii. This time I found its drying leaves, they are so dissected and spiny and beautiful.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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A tiny delicate annual. Calyx slightly bristly. Corolla violet bell-shaped. Fruiting calyx starry, often pending.
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A spiny tumble weed, typical to the Middle East.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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Campanula hierosolymitana (Jerusalem bell flower) is a common shy, but beautiful annual that blooms at the end of spring in rock crevices. It is common in Jerusalem (hence its name) and spontaneous also in the rocks of the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.
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Nymphoides aquatica is a common water plant from America.
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A strigose annual, typical to arid rocks.
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Onopordum ambiguum is an herbaceous spiny desert perennial. It occurs in high altitudes.
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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.