Cyprian Donkey Thistle - Onopordum cyprium Eig - Γαουράγγκαθος - Ονόπορδον το κύπριο - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Onopordum, or cottonthistle, is a genus of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae.[4] They are native to southern Europe, northern Africa, the Canary Islands, the Caucasus, and southwest and central Asia. They grow on disturbed land, roadsides, arable land and pastures

Photos Athalassa 13/5/2015  by George Konstantinou

Veined sainfoin - Onobrychis venosa (Desf.) Desv. - Ονοβρυχής η φλεβώδης - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Onobrychis venosa, veined sainfoin is a perennial, spreading or suberect herb 10–25 cm high, with a short stem. Leaves alternate, compound, imparipinnate, leaflets ovoid to suborbicular 10-40 x 5–30 mm with characteristic bronze venation (hence venosa), hairy only along margins. Zygomorphic flowers with yellow petals with conspicuous dark-red nerves in axillary racemes. Flowers from February to May. The fruit is a circular flattened hairy pod

Onobrychis, the sainfoins, are a genus of Eurasian perennial herbaceous plants of the legume family (Fabaceae). Including doubtfully distinct species and provisionally accepted taxa, about 150 species are presently known. The Flora Europaea lists 23 species of Onobrychis; the main centre of diversity extends from Central Asia to Iran, with 56 species – 27 of which are endemic – in the latter country alone. O. viciifolia is naturalized throughout many countries in Europe and North America grasslands on calcareous soils. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Athalassa 2/3/2015  by George Konstantino

Odontites linkii subsp. cyprius (Boiss.) Bolliger - Οδοντίτης η κυπρία - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Odontites is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orobanchaceae

Photos Chalefka 9/11/2014  by George Konstantinou

Limonium cyprium (Meikle) Hand & Buttler - Λειµόνειο το υπόλευκο υποείδ. το κύπριο - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus
Ενδημικό της βόρειας και δυτικής παραλιακής ζώνης της Κύπρου

Limonium is a genus of about 600 flowering plant species. Members are also known as sea-lavender, statice, caspia or marsh-rosemary. Despite their common names, species are not related to the lavenders or to rosemary. They are instead in Plumbaginaceae, the plumbago or leadwort family. The generic name is from the Latin līmōnion, used by Pliny for a wild plant and is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek leimon (λειμών, 'meadow')

Photos Gialousa 17/11/2014  and Cape Greco 1/4/2016 by George Konstantinou

Hyacinthella millingenii (Post) Feinbrun - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Hyacinthella is a genus of bulbous flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (formerly the family Hyacinthaceae). It is native to eastern and south-eastern Europe through to northern Iran, reaching as far south as Palestine.Turkeyis the main country in which species are found
Hyacinthella species grow from bulbs whose tunics often bear powdery white crystals. There are usually two or three basal leaves with prominent strands of fibre. The inflorescences consist of short spikes (racemes) of tubular flowers, each with six short lobes, in colours ranging from pale blue to deep violet. Heights vary from about 5 cm (2 in) to 25 cm (10 in), depending on the species. They grow in rocky habitats, such as hillsides, which are hot and dry in the summer.  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Geri 28/12/2014  by George Konstantinou

Three-leaved Gladiolus - Gladiolus triphyllus (Sm.) Ker-Gawl. - Γλαδίολος ο τρίφυλλος Είδος λάζαρου - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Gladiolus triphyllus, Three-leaved Gladiolus is an erect perennial herb, 15-30 cm high, glabrous, glaucous, with an ovoid corm. Leaves usually 3 or 4, alternate, simple, entire, linear, the two lower 10-30 x 0.3-0.5 cm, the upper much reduced. Flowers on a spike, zygomorphic,perianth of 6 petaloid parts, 2.5-3 cm long, pale or dark rose pink, smelling only in the afternoon, bracts 1.5-3 cm long. Flowers Mars-May. Fruit a capsule.
Openings of pine forests, maquis, garigue on limestone or igneous formations from 0 to 1200 m altitude.
Endemic to Cyprus, locally common especially in Akamas (Smyies, Fontana, Amoroza, Karavopetres, Erimites etc.), Tripylos, Dodheka Anemi (Paphos forest), Stavrovouni ,Akrotiri, Pentadaktylos, Yialousa. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Episkopi 18/4/2015  by George Konstantinou

Yellow star-of-Cyprus - Gagea juliae Pascher - - Cyprus

Near-endemic to Cyprus

Gagea juliae, yellow star-of-Cyprus is a plant species in the lily family, native to Cyprus and southern Turkey.

Gagea juliae is a bulbous perennial herb with erect stems 2-20 cm high. Flowers yellow internally with a broad greenish stripe externally on each perianth segment. Flowering February-April

On damp shaded hillsides in garigue, by roadsides or in moist rock crevices or in pine forest at 50-1650 m altitude.

Native to Cyprus and southern Turkey, it is found in Akamas, Ayia, Stavros Psokas, Tripylos the Troödos forest, Platres, Ayios Theodoros (Adelphi Forest), the Makhera and Limassol Forests, Kellaki, Pentadaktylos, Yialousa. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Troodos 24/4/2014  by George Konstantinou

Aphrodite's Spurge - Euphorbia veneris M. S. Khan - Γαλόχορτον - Ευφορβία της αφροδίτης Τσούννα - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to the type genus), not just to members of the genus

Photos Troodos 12/6/2013  by George Konstantinou

Dianthus strictus subsp. troodi (Post) Greuter & Burdet - ∆ίανθος ο άκαµπτος ποικ. ο τροόδιος - Endemic to Cyprus

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Endemic to Cyprus

Dianthus strictus, known as the wild pink, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.

Photos Mammari 2/11/2013  by George Konstantinou