Valle de Hecho: Pirineo aragons.Espaa.Familia: SCROPHULARIACEAEDistribucin: Endmica del W y WC de Europa; en la Pennsula Ibrica se cita exclusivamente de la zona pirenaica, entre Catalua y Navarra, y en Len; en Aragn por el Alto Pirineo y Prepirineo.Hbitat: Crece en los claros de quejigales, hayedos, bosques mixtos y pinares, incluso los de pino negro; tambin coloniza rellanos de roca, pedrizas estables, pastos y bordes de caminosPreferencia edfica: Indiferente. Se ha encontrado sobre conglomerados, pizarras, calcoesquistos, margas y calizas.Rango altitudinal: ( 670 ) 1950- 2050 mForma Biolgica: Hemicriptfito escaposoExtractado del Atlas de la Flora de Aragn (Herbario de Jaca)
Plantago altissimaSlo.: visoki tropotecDat.: July 01. 2008Lat.: 45.72791 Long.: 14.40555Code: Bot_279/2008_0980 Habitat: Flooded grassland, semiruderal place, flat terrain, sunny but very humid place, exposed to direct rain, average precipitations 1.600-1-800 mm/year, average temperature 6-8 deg C, elevation 545 m (1.800 feet), Dinaric phytogeographical region. Substratum: frequently flooded grassland.Place: South Cerknica intermittent lake. West of village Gornje jezero, near the bridge on Obrh stream, Notranjska, Slovenia EC Comment: A quite rare plant.Ref.:(1) M.A.Fischer, W.Adler, K.Oswald, Exkursionsflora Oesterreich Liechtenstein, Suedtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 743. (2) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 580.
Yarrangobilly Caves, Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales. Herbaceous perennial with radiating cane-like stems to about 1.5 m long, growing in sheltered hollow beside large limestone outcrop. Also occurs in moist forest off the limestone.See notes on taxonomy under adjacent shot of this.
Jeniang, Kedah, Malaysia.Scoparia dulcis L. Plantaginaceae, also placed in, Gratiolaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Veronicaceae. CN: [Malay - Pokok delis, Teh makao, Jaka tuwa], Sweet broom, Bitter broom, Broom weed, Licorice weed, Riceweed, Scoparia. Origin neotropics; naturalized throughout tropics and subtropics. Weed; folk medicine and said to be kidney stone diluter and remedy for diabetics. Stem herbaceaous wiry ca 90 cm tall, much branched; leaves opposite or whorled, small ca 5 cm long, 1 cm broad, narrowly elliptical and tapered to the base, margins from the middle to the tip are coarsely toothed; flowers numerous, small ca 1 cm long, emerged from leaf axils, several on slender stalks; sepals 4, corolla white with 4 spreading petals; the base of petals having white hairs surrounding the 4 greenish stamens; ovary green. Capsule round with persistent sepals and style.Ref and suggested reading:www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33402www.hear.org/pier/species/scoparia_dulcis.htmwww.scielo.br/pdf/bjmbr/v37n4/5241.pdf