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| − | '''''Homogyne alpina''''', '''Alpine coltsfoot''' or '''purple colt's-foot''',<ref name=BSBI07>{{cite web |title=BSBI List 2007 |publisher=Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland |url=http://www.bsbi.org.uk/BSBIList2007.xls |format=xls |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6VqJ46atN?url=http://www.bsbi.org.uk/BSBIList2007.xls |archive-date=2015-01-25 |accessdate=2014-10-17 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref> is a [[rhizome|rhizomatous]] [[herb]] in the [[Asteraceae]] family, which is often used as an [[ornamental plant]]. In addition, this plant has purple-red flowers, and it is usually associated with the [[gall fly|gall flies]] ''[[Ensina sonchi]]'' and ''[[Acidia cognata]]''. | + | '''''Homogyne alpina''''', '''Alpine coltsfoot''' or '''purple colt's-foot''' |
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| − | '''''Homogyne alpina''''' is a perennial plant that reaches a height of 10 to 40 centimeters. The rhizome is creeping woolly and scaly. The stem is erect, reddish brown and often single head. It is hairy silvery-woolly, bare later and usually has 2 leaves on small scales. The leaves are basal, long-stalked, leathery, coarse and glossy dark green, the underside is lighter. The leaf blade is heart-kidney-shaped.
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| − | The baskets have a diameter up to 25 mm. The bracts are single row, crowded and hairy brown-red woolly at the base. The flowers are reddish and longer than the basket case, the corners are purple. The fruits have a long hair crown.
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| − | Flowering time is from May to August.
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| − | ==Occurrence==
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| − | '''''Homogyne alpina''''' comes in the mountains of South Central Europe at altitudes from 500 to 3 000 meters. The species grows on moist, humus-rich, mossy soil in coniferous forests, bushes and dwarf-shrub heath. It is common.
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| − | ==Similar Species==
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| − | The felt-like '''''Homogyne discolor''''' is characterized by the under side white, felty leaves.
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| − | == References ==
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| − | * {{cite book | author=Pink, A. | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11892|title=Gardening for the Million| year=2004 | publisher=[[Project Gutenberg|Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation]]}}
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| − | * Xavier Finkenzeller, Jürke Gray: Alpine Flowers (Steinbach nature guide). Mosaic Verlag, Munich 1996, {{ISBN|3-576-10558-1}}.
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| − | == External links ==
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| − | *[http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T37784.HTM ''Homogyne alpina'']
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| − | {{Commons|Homogyne alpina}}
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