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Lomelosia graminifolia
Also called Pincushion Flower
Lomelosia graminifolia, synonym Scabiosa graminifolia, grass-leaved scabious, is a species of Lomelosia native to in the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Spain to Greece. The plant grows on rocky slopes. As its name indicates, this species has grass-like leaves. Its flowers are pink or lilac and open in summer.
Lomelosia graminifolia is principally a south-European montane species, most frequent on the sunny limestone flanks of the southern and south-western Alps. Native to Morocco, it has been recorded from Albania, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and former Yugoslavia. In Slovenia it reaches the north-eastern edge of its overall range: a 2020 survey discovered about twenty plants scattered across five micro-sites in the Trenta Valley (Julian Alps) at 520–810 m altitude. The individuals occupy narrow screes and gravelly ledges within the Sravnik ravine or on immediately adjacent rocky slopes, where only a veneer of soil overlies fractured limestone or dolomite.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomelosia graminifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
