After our arrival in Barcelona, we picked up the rental car and drove towards our one-week place to stay, Casa Mur. I had planned for two stops, the first at the reservoir near Santa Ana. While perhaps not the greatest of all natural history locations, this site gave some easy access to cliffs, and the Crossbill guide indicated some where to be expected here. Of course, one never knows how early or late the season is at a particular location, and Santa Ana proved to be a warm spot, given that various plants were already gone. At the first location, I tend to be impatient, and so I 'forgot' to take the normal landscape pictures - but perhaps also because I don't lke the view of reservoirs... Luckily I already found quite a few interesting plants, suggesting we were had an interesting week |
Phlomis lychnitis |
Authority | : | Linnaeus, 1753 |
Nederlands | : | Viltbrandkruid |
English | : | Lampwick, Iberian Jerusalem sage |
Deutsch | : | Jerusalem-Salbei, Filziges brandkraut |
Français | : | Herbe aux mèches, Sauvie sauvage |
Italiano | : | salvione licnite |
Español | : | candilera, candiles, cerruda, cola de gato de monte, hierba de las torcidas, matagallo del viento, matagallos amarillos, matas blancas, matatorcía, matulera, merchera, quebrantahuesos, rabo de gato, sanjuanes, savia, torcida de candil, zerruda |
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Leuzea conifera |
Authority | : | (L.) DC. 1805 |
Synonyms | : | Centaurea conifera Linnaeus, 1753 Rhaponticum coniferum (L.) Greuter, 2003 |
Deutsch | : | Zapfenkopf |
Français | : | centaurée pomme de pin, centaurée porte-cône, leuzée conifère, leuzée à cône |
Italiano | : | fiordaliso ovoide |
Español | : | adornos de monte, alcachofilla, alcancilillo, cardo de arzolla, cardo del sol, cardo santo, cigala, cuchara de pastor, cucharita de la Virgen, guitarra, hierba de almorranas, hierba de los pujos, picias, piña de San Juan, piñicas de monte, pinillo, pinochas, planta de la campanita, planta de la cucharita |
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Pistacia terebinthus with galls of Forda formicaria |
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The small globolar galls are caused by the fundatrix, her offspring cause the semicircular galls at the leaf margin. |
Mantisalca salmantica |
Authority | : | (L.) Briq. & Cavill. 1930 |
Synonyms | : | Centaurea salmantica Linnaeus, 1753 |
Français | : | centaurée de Salamanque, mantisalca de Salamanque, microlonque de Salamanque |
Italiano | : | fiordaliso de Salamanca |
Español | : | ajonjera botonera, alcabota, algaravía, amargos, anapeas, baleas, baleo fino, baleo macho, barredera, bolica, botones, cabezuela, cabezuela coronada, cabezuela de Salamanca, cabezuela menuda, cálices, camarroja, cantarera, capotica, cardo de bolas, clavelitos, coscorrones, drama, escoba botonera, escoba de cabezuela, escoba de macuca, escoba de palillos, escobera, escobonera, escobones, escombrera, estebe de Salamanca, flor de rama, hierba de escobas, hierba de las escobas, mantisalca, marginera, padres e hijos, palillos, palmerillas, palotes, pan de pastor, pelotica, punticas de escobarrama, saladilla, salmerón, verruguicas, zarcillón |
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Cordulegaster boltonii |
Authority | : | (Donovan, 1807) |
Nederlands | : | Gewone bronlibel |
English | : | Common Goldenring |
Deutsch | : | Zweigestreifte Quelljungfer |
Norsk | : | Kongeøyenstikker |
Svenska | : | Kungstrollslända |
Français | : | Cordulégastre à front jaune |
Italiano | : | Guardaruscello comune |
Español | : | Guardarroyos común |
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Globularia alypum |
Authority | : | Linnaeus, 1753 |
Italiano | : | erba dei frati, erba del re, erba del Re, vedovelle cespugliose |
Español | : | bocha, cardenilla, cebollada, cogullada, corona de rey, corona real, coronilla de fraile, coronilla real, cujarda, globularia, servencia, siempre-enjuta, turbit blanco, zebollada, zocollada |
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Staehelina dubia |
Authority | : | Linnaeus, 1753 |
Deutsch | : | zweifelhafte Strauchscharte |
Français | : | stéhéline douteuse |
Italiano | : | pennellini |
Español | : | borlitas de sedo montés, hierba pincel, hiesca, jopillos de seda montés, manzanilla hiesquera, mata pincel, tomillo borriquero, tomillo de brocha |
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Rhamnus alaternus |
Authority | : | Linnaeus, 1753 |
English | : | barren privet, Italian buckthorn, Mediterranean buckthorn |
Deutsch | : | immergrüner Alternbaum, immergrüner Kreuzdorn |
Français | : | alardier, alaterne, bourgue épine, nerprun alaterne, sanguin blanc |
Italiano | : | alardier, alaterne, bourgue épine, nerprun alaterne, sanguin blanc |
Español | : | agracejo, aladierno, alaterno, alitierno, bayón, biondo, carrasquilla, cascaborra, chaparro bruco, chaparro mesto, coscollina, durillo, laderno, ladierna, madierno, mermasangre, mesto, palo de Bañón, palomesto, sangredo, sangricio, sanguino |
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Petrosedum sediforme |
Authority | : | (Jacq.) Grulich, 1984 |
Synonyms | : | Sempervivum sediforme Jacq. 1771 Sedum sediforme (Jacq.) Pau 1909 |
English | : | pale stonecrop |
Deutsch | : | nizzaer Mauerpfeffer |
Français | : | orpin de Nice, orpin à port d'orpin, sédum de Nice, sédum élevé |
Italiano | : | borracina di Nizza |
Español | : | arroz de moro, uguetas, uña de gato, uña de gatos |
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Scabiosa atropurpurea |
Authority | : | Linnaeus, 1753 |
English | : | Mournful widow, Sweet scabious |
Deutsch | : | Purpurskabiose, Samtskabiose |
Français | : | Scabieuse papillon, Scabieuse pourpre noirâtre |
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Limenitis reducta |
Authority | : | Staudinger, 1901 |
Nederlands | : | blauwe ijsvogelvlinder |
English | : | Southern White Admiral |
Deutsch | : | Blauschwarzer Eisvogel |
Français | : | Sylvain azuré |
Español | : | ninfa de los arroyos |
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