Carpathian cat paws
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Carpathian cat paws ( Antennaria carpatica ) |
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( 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 .
description
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
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers. Recognize and determine (= Steinbach's natural guide ). Mosaik, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-576-11482-3 .
- Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald: Excursion flora for Austria, Liechtenstein and South Tyrol . 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. State of Upper Austria, Biology Center of the Upper Austrian State Museums, Linz 2005, ISBN 3-85474-140-5 .
- Antennaria carpatica (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh., Carpathian cat paws. In: FloraWeb.de.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 2, IHW, Eching 2004, ISBN 3-930167-61-1 , p. 582.
- ↑ 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.
Web links
- Antennaria carpatica (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh., Carpathian cat paws. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Carpathian cat paws . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Antennaria carpatica (Wahlenb.) Bluff & Fingerh. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved April 20, 2016.
- Thomas Meyer: Katzenpfötchen data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )
- Data sheet with images of Antennaria carpathica at Flora Italiana - Schede di Botanica .
- Antennaria carpatica at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis