Klea lau lii Primulaceae (Primrose family)Endemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu, Molokai, Lnai, Maui, Hawaii)Oahu (Cultivated)Closeup of foliagewww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4831985063/in/photostream/Early Hawaiians use the bark, leaves, and flowers of klea (Mysine spp.) medicinally to treat paoao (childhood disease, with physical weakening) and ea (thrush).EtymologyThe generic name Myrsine is comes from the ancient Greek pharmacologist and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides (c.40-90 CE) name for the myrtle, which did not refer to these plants.The specific epithet sandwicensis refers to the "Sandwich Islands," as the Hawaiian Islands were once called, and named by James Cook on one of his voyages in the 1770's. James Cook named the islands after John Montagu (The fourth Earl of Sandwich) for supporting Cook's voyages.NPH00003nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Myrsine_sandwicensis
2010.04.25 Austria, Lower Austria, district Lilienfeld, on the dryer patches of a basically wet limestone cliff (near Fensterbach in Halbachtal 580 m AMSL).Flowering from april till june.Rare.German name: Aurikel, PetergstammID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
2010.08.01 N Neunkirchen (between Scheibwaldhhe and Bieskogel, Alpine meadow 1895 m AMSL).Quite common in the Northern Limestone Alps.Flowering in june/july, flowers with yellow centre haven't been pollinated yet, after pollination they turn pink: so those are still young flowers while it was already august when the shot was taken.The explanation for this paradox is easy: those grew just above an Alpine cirque where there was still some snow left (by 1st of august! a shot of the snow I found there is posted here), the place where this one grows certainly was covered with snow much longer than the area around - where not a single flowering specimen of this species was to be found.In and around such cirques you can oftentimes "look back" at spring vegetation even in high summer.(Note, there are no glaciers on mountains here, at this altitude - in Austria glaciers don't extend below 2500 metres: what snow is left on Rax mountain in summer isn't a "glacier" but just leftover snow from winter.)The leaves you can see there by the way are not of A. chamaejasme but probably of Homogyne alpina - identified as Salix reticulata by Juan Sanchez!German name: Wimper-Mannsschild
Spoonleaf yellow loosestrifePrimulaceae (Primrose family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (Niihau, Kauai, Molokai, Maui, n.w. Hawaii Island)Uncommon to rareOahu (Cultivated)Habitwww.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/4756849016/in/photolist-...EtymologyThe generic name Lysimachia is derived from the Greek lysis, release from, and mache, strife. Tradition relates that when Lysimachus, King of Thrace in Asia Minor (306-281 BCE), was chased by a bull he waved a plant of this genus to pacify the animal, thus releasing himself from strife. The common name for plants in this genus is loosestrife.The specific epithet mauritiana refers to the island of Mauritius.nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Lysimachia_mauritiana