Serpentine endemic

As a serpentine endemics refers plants in serpentinite areas grow, as they are among the few species that can thrive in this rock. On this rock they form an azonal vegetation for the respective habitat . There are serpentine deposits, for example, in the Urals , Norway , Switzerland , Bosnia , Albania and northwest Greece .

The serpentine occurrences found in southeast Europe, for example, include the desiccation-resistant fern Cheilanthes marantae , specific cruciferous species as well as predatory leaf plants from the genus Onosma and the star-haired ziest ( Betonica scardica or Stachys scardica ).

literature

• Ursula Hoffmann and Michael Schwerdtfeger; ... and the green of life's golden tree. Pleasure trips and educational trips in the realm of plants , Ulrich Burgdorf Verlag, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-89762-000-6