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Potentilla nitida
Leaves are floor grounded, tripled, short; stalk is 1-2 flowered; flowers are 3cm "long"; pink-reddish. It blossoms between July and August.
Alps (Julian, Kamnik-Savinja etc), mountains, between rocks
This flower is connected to Slovenian legend of Zlatorog (alpine ibex/goldhorn), which was shot by a hunter and it bled this flowers which had healing power and it brought it back to life. Look at this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldhorn We call this flower "triglavska roza", which literally means "Triglav flower" (which is the highes mountain in Slovenia).
Spotted on Aug 31, 2011
Submitted on Oct 31, 2011
2 Comments
thx craig! :)
Wonderful!