Mountain flowers: names and features

Where there is almost no land, so that plants can live comfortably, many charming flowers. Wild mountain gifts are unique and charming - mountain flowers! They bloom even in extreme climates, high in the mountains.

Features of these plants

They do not interfere, they blossom, despite the presence of extreme conditions:

• Low temperatures, often here;
• Strong winds blowing on bare rocks;
• A lot of seasonal precipitation;
• Thick snow cover;
• Lack of soil cover.

Plants have long been admired by people: wild mountain, forest, field. Snow cover the mountains tightly. This is protection from severe winters. This happens until the sun's rays help the snow to melt.

The name of mountain flowers is not known to everyone. For example, cleaning with fleshy leaves. This flower is resistant to the harsh winter and summer lack of water. Some of the mountain flowers do not wait for spring, begin to awaken with melting snow. So the grows so much Soldanella. Her spicate inflorescence grows alone. The plant is small, has flowers violet-pink. It grows in contrast to strict neighborhoods. Almost at the same time, there are insects that pollinate mountain flowers. Slowly the snow leaves, the leaves of the plant gradually come out. At this time, the flower knots the seeds, forms leaves, but for the next year.

The most common mountain flowers

The saxifrage is the destroyer of rocks. It can grow directly from a monolithic rock. Forms rosettes or pillows, standing out of intertwined leaves. Of these, flowers grow on the spicate inflorescences. They are very long, even dangling. The roots of the stone-growing grow in the form of branches. Their light weight serves as an anchor, they penetrate deep into the crevices of the mountains in search of water. They have so adapted to live on bare rocks, which in other places simply do not grow.

The saxifrage is protected from animals by rocks. Herbivores just can not get to them. Plants are popular, they can grow even at home. True, they are not so crowded and loose in the room, with thin shoots. Gardeners, they also did not bypass the attention, they use for different compositions in the arrangement of alpine slides. Plants can be freely cultivated, do not require much care.

Flowers of mountain protrusions

In these places grow different herbs, ferns. On the narrow protrusions of the rocks one can find annual mosses and flowers of rock-hewn, resistant to frost. They do not need much soil and nutrients. They grow and multiply, protected from the animal world of the mountains. At the end of time, some plants with flowers are replaced by others.

But spring comes, rocky ledges begin to become covered with a lot of alpine flowers. As they grow, organic matter is formed - humus. It is very dense, under the influence of rain it can condense, then collapse to the foot of the rock. Here the flowers survive, grow. The foot of the rocks is covered with annual mountain flowers, frost-resistant and multi-colored.

A resident of the Edelweiss Mountains

A rare mountain flower named edelweiss is a sign of faithfulness, of love. It's very unusual. The Italians say that this is a silver flower. For the inhabitants of France it is the star of the Alps. Like all mountain flowers, he loves the sun's rays. It grows on the snow, at the very edge of the high mountains.

Not every person can see it, especially to break it. This is a rare plant, only those who have love in their hearts can find it. How much you need to be able to reach out to him, and strong. But the one who loves his unforgettable love will achieve it. But they should adore him, too. Only the mountains are not amenable to every person, especially their top.

Since ancient times, many would like to get edelweiss. And there were many, but the plant remained unattainable. This affected his complete disappearance. Already in the 19th century, it was noted that the flower is less and less common. They believed that only a few dozen copies remained. Edelweiss came to complete extinction. Now this flower grows, but you can meet it only occasionally. It is absolutely forbidden to disrupt it. To preserve rare plants that never appear on earth, if their last species disappears, people have provided measures, for example, fines.

Flowers of the Canary Islands

There is Mount Teid, which is strewn with many flowers. Among them there are many such that do not occur anywhere else in the world. These are local mountain flowers.

For example, a bruise Echium wildprettii. It is quite large, with the growth up it throws out long inflorescences in the form of spikelets. They have tiny petals that attract insects for pollination.

Chinese mouse

There is an unpleasant flower, although it is created by nature. We have become accustomed to the fact that nature creates almost always beautiful, extraordinary things. If you look at it close, it looks like a bat, but only with closed petals. Its ornate tentacles reach almost 40 cm, like snakes with black color. At the sight of it a horror, disgust arises. Because of this, it is rarely grown even by brave growers. The appearance of the plant does not please anyone.

Such different mountain flowers. Names, features of them can be seen on numerous photos. These plants are colorful and charming.