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This category includes the endemic and native plants of Greece. According to the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, this excludes Crete and the eastern Aegean Islands of the Dodecanese, Antipsara, Chios, Lesbos and Psara. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic
Galanthus nivalis: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885. Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, (gála, "milk") + ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.
Greece includes a great diversity of vascular plants among its flora. In 2013, there were 5,752 species and 1,893 subspecies of native and introduced plants, for a total of 6,620 taxa, including 1,278 endemic species and 452 endemic subspecies. [3]
The following list of endemic plants on the Balkans includes taxa from Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia and the European part of Turkey. The northeast limit of this area is the Sava river valley. The boundary then continues along the Danube.
Crocus flavus, known as yellow crocus, [3] Dutch yellow crocus or snow crocus, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Crocus of the family Iridaceae. It grows wild on the slopes of Greece, former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and northwestern Turkey, [1] with fragrant bright orange-yellow flowers.
Crocus (/ ˈ k r oʊ k ə s /; plural: crocuses or croci) is a genus of seasonal flowering plants in the family Iridaceae (iris family) comprising about 100 species of perennials growing from corms.
The former subspecies Cyclamen graecum subsp. anatolicum Ietsw. is now elevated to a separate species, Cyclamen maritimum Hildebr., native to the eastern Aegean Islands (including Rhodes), southwestern and southern Turkey, and northern Cyprus. [5] It is characterized by more slender flowers with a smaller blotch and slight auricles. [6]
Anemone (/ ə ˈ n ɛ m ə n iː /) is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. [2] They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. [1]