Forest Herbs Of North Ossetia / Part 2

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The common spleen is common in forests. Sometimes it forms thickets. It is found in deciduous forests, in wetlands, in damp meadows. The flowers and inflorescences of the next year are fully formed in the bud in the fall, and in the spring there is only an elongation of the stem

Characteristic forest grasses -

decorative snowdrops: narrow-leaved, Caucasian and Lagodekhi, only broad-leaved snowdrop grows in subalpine meadows. Found in deciduous forests. They bloom in February - March, and during a warm winter, in January. Together with the Crested, Proleskoy create an early spring aspect. In May, the leaves and peduncles turn yellow and die off. It has long been cultivated as an ornamental garden. They were included in the Red Book for a long time.

Pretty grass that gives us spring joy -

goose yellow, or

forest … As soon as the spicy spring earth warms up, the first, fragile flowers will appear in the forest against the background of foliage and snowy litter. Its low stem bears an inflorescence of several flowers. There is a pea-sized onion in the ground. It can also be seen in secondary habitats and fields.

At the end of spring, in the shade, they bloom to replace early spring

violets, wild garlic, lilies of the valley, kupena - plants of shadow lovers, for which there is enough weak light penetrating through the green foliage. Their leaves are usually wider.

Twilight in the beech forest. It smells like damp. The wet areas are framed by a fringe of beautiful fern leaves. Fragrant stems underfoot

woodruff … In all its glory, wild garlic with white flowers exuding a pungent aroma. The plant resembles a lily of the valley by its leaves.

An unusual plant is found in the forests in early spring

Peter's cross - its popular and scientific name. This original of the vast plant kingdom loves underground life, spending up to 10 months underground. It is not for nothing that the mysterious inhabitant of the underground is called the plant mole. We will get acquainted with this plant-parasite later.

An outlandish plant can be called a poisonous

arum … His closest relatives are inhabitants of hot countries. The appearance of this poisonous plant miracle is unusual, not typical for the plants of North Ossetia. Above the tiers of flowers, a sterile stem up to 10 cm long. The lavender coverlet at the bottom is inflated into the chamber where the flowers are placed. An ear of red berries appears in the summer. The bristles of flowers in a warm cover retain pollinating insects. Has a rather unpleasant odor.

Smells sweet

lungwort in the spring forest. The leaves had not yet blossomed on the trees, and the curls of her flowers had broken out of the ground. They seem even brighter against the background of dirty brown foliage from their multicolored nature. In the "repainted" inflorescence, it has three colors of the rainbow - red, purple and blue. Only for a few hours, the flowers retain their pink color. Then they turn blue. The combination of old and young flowers is more noticeable to insects. There is little room for neighbors under its wide, large leaves, pressed to the ground by snow.

Typical forest species

violets - amazing, fragrant and white. Everyone is familiar with their pleasant delicate aroma. The violet is called amazing because of the interesting peculiarities of its reproduction. She has two types of flowers: spring, beautiful and fragrant, but barren and not bearing fruit, and more modest, having the appearance of buds and never opening, but bearing fruit. Fragrant violet winters with normally developed leaves.

A well-known spring medicinal plant

lily of the valley … Its white flowers have a pleasant delicate aroma. Grows in deciduous forests and floodplain oak forests. Due to its beautiful fragrant flowers, it is destroyed in natural thickets.