Carpathian cat paws

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Carpathian cat paws
Carpathian cat paws (Antennaria carpatica)

Carpathian cat paws ( Antennaria carpatica )

Systematics
Order : Astern-like (Asterales)
Family : Daisy family (Asteraceae)
Subfamily : Asteroideae
Tribe : Gnaphalieae
Genre : Cat's paw ( Antennaria )
Type : Carpathian cat paws
Scientific name
Antennaria carpatica
( Wahlenb. ) Bluff & Fingerh.

The Carpathian Katzenpfötchen ( Antennaria carpatica ) is a plant from the genus Katzenpfötchen ( Antennaria ) within the family of Compositae (Asteraceae). It thrives in the European mountains: Alps , Pyrenees and the Carpathians .

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Habit, leaves and inflorescences

Vegetative characteristics

The Carpathian cat's paw grows as a wintering green, perennial herbaceous plant and reaches heights of about 10 to 20 cm, rarely up to 25 centimeters. In contrast to the common cat's paw , it does not form aboveground runners . The aboveground parts of the plant are hairy woolly and white felt. The upright stem is unbranched. The whole-margined leaves are mostly oblong-obscured-eilanzettlich at the bottom, the upper ones oblong to linear. Both leaf surfaces are hairy woolly and tomentose.

Generative characteristics

The Carpathian cat paw is dioeciously separated sexes ( diocesan ). There are two to six cup-shaped partial inflorescences in a terminal, umbelliferous total inflorescence . The bracts have brownish appendages and the inner ones are brownish and dry-skinned. The male flowers are white-yellow, the female white to red.

The flowering period is between July and September.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 56.

Occurrence

The Carpathian cat paw is native to the Alps, Pyrenees and the Carpathian Mountains.

In Austria it occurs scattered in the Central Alps , in the Limestone Alps rarely in the subalpine to alpine altitudes , it is absent in Burgenland, Vienna and Lower Austria.

The Carpathian cat's paw thrives at altitudes of 1400 to 3200 meters in locations with weakly acidic soils in dry, wind-exposed locations (ridges swept by wind and snow). It is an Elynion Union character type .

In the Allgäu Alps , it rises at the summit of the Rauheck in Bavaria to an altitude of 2383 meters.

Systematics

The following subspecies can be distinguished in the Carpathian cat paw:

  • Antennaria carpatica (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh. subsp. carpatica : It occurs in Poland, Slovakia and the Ukraine.
  • Antennaria carpatica subsp. helvetica (Chrtek & Pouzar) Chrtek & Pouzar : It occurs in Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 .
  2. ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 582.
  3. ↑ a b c Werner Greuter (2006+): Compositae (pro parte majore). - In: W. Greuter & E. von Raab-Straube (ed.): Compositae. Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Datasheet Antennaria carpatica In: Euro + Med Plantbase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity.

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