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Asphodel
Asphodelus L. The genus includes seventeen species of perennial plants native to western, central, and southern Europe. Many of them have...
Greek cumin…
Hellenocarum multiflorum (Sm.) H.Wolff 1927 Carum multiflorum (Sm.) Boiss. Syn. Athamanta multiflora Sm. In an earlier classification, the plant I am presenting here belonged to...
Spring bulbs: “Bitter in the mouth, sweet in the body!”
Leopoldia comosa (L.) Parl. Leopoldia comosa Syn. Muscari comosum (L.) Mill. Hyacinthus comosus (L.) Mill. Perennial bulbous plant, native to the Mediterranean and...
Frankenia the shaggy-haired
Frankenia hirsuta L. Syn. Frankenia laevis var. hirsuta Franca thymifolia Vis. Perennial herb that thrives in sandy or...
The Intelligent and Dangerous Aristocracy
Aristolochia sempervirens L. Syn. Aristolochia undata Moench Aristolochia altissima Desf. Aristolichia sempervirens subsp. altissima (Desf.)Greuter Perennial, climbing plant quite common in...
Psoralia the asphalt worker
Bituminaria bituminosa (L.) C.H. Stirt. Syn. Psoralea bituminosa L. Asphaltum asphaltum A perennial plant widespread throughout the Mediterranean. It blooms from late...
Ηλιάνθεμο το συριακό
Helianthemum syriacum (Jacq.) Dum. Cours. 1802
Cistus lavandulifolius Lam.
Cistus syriacus Jacq.
Cistus thivaudii (Pers.) Poir.
Πολυετές χαμαίφυτο που εξαπλώνεται σε όλη τη...
Starchos the Cretan
Stachys cretica L. Syn. Stachys italica Mill. , Stachys germanica var.italica (Mill.) Briq. The genus Stachys, one of the most numerous in...
Tetragonolobus purpureus Meonch
Syn. Tetragonolobus palaestinus Boiss.&Blanche Lotus tetragonolobus L. Annual plant, native to the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East. It has spread as an epigeic species in...
Helicopter smoke grass
Fumaria capreolata L. 1753 Annual climbing plant, native to Europe, Western Asia, and North Africa, and introduced to New Zealand,...
Choiria heterophylla: Charm without a name
Scrophularia heterophylla Willd Scrophularia heterophylla subsp. laciniata Waldst. & Kit. Syn. Scrophularia caesia Sibth. & Smith A relatively rare chasmophyte, found on limestone rocks in...
Thin-leaved diaro
Biarum tenuifolium (L.) Schott The genus Biarum comprises more than 21 species of tiny geophytes that are distributed from Portugal to...