Securigera-varia_4

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Securigera varia (L.) Lassen, syn: Coronilla varia L.Family: FabaceaeEN: Crown Vetch, Crown-vetch, Crownvetch, Purple Crownvetch , DE: Bunte KronwickeSlo.: pisana marna detelja, pisana sekirkaDat.: June 14. 2008Lat.: 45.81098 Long.: 13.60572Code: Bot_0271/2008_DSC9514 Habitat: road side; grassland; locally flat terrain; calcareous, skeletal ground; open, warm and dry place; Karst region, elevation 60 m (200 feet); average precipitations 1.500-1.600 mm/year, average temperature 12-13 deg C, Sub-Mediterranean phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil.Place: South of the main road near Klarii bored crossing between Italy and Slovenia, East of the village Brestovica pri Komnu, Brestovki dol, Primorska, Slovenia EC.Comment: Securigera varia is a beautiful species in the Fabaceae family. The family is commonly known as the legume, pea, or bean family. It is a quite common plant and widely distributed in Europe, West Asia and nowadays also in North America as an introduced species. One can find it in semi-dry to semi-moist grassland, among bushes and light forests, mostly on calcareous ground. It climbs up to montane elevations of all European mountains too. The plant was commonly known as Coronilla varia, but it was placed in an another genus some time ago.Ref.:(1) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 314. (2) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p xx.(3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 1., Haupt (2004), p 948.