Today I'm gonna show you a bunch of wild plants that grow in various habitats here in my area. Have a good viewing.
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In this opening set of five photographs, you can see a plant that grows in the intertidal zone and gets regularly flooded by the sea. The name of the species is Salicornia fruticosa. The following two photographs ...
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... show the dry parts of the same plant.
This is the dry grass. The Briza media grass. A plant that grows in sunny open meadows, often near the sea.
The plant shown in this photograph grows on stony terrains very close to the sea. Often on the edge of the intertidal zone. The name of the species is Limonium narbonense.
Here you can see what looks like a dry flowerhead or seed pod of some interesting plant that I wasn't able to identify. The thing looked almost like a fresh flower in the backlight and from a certain angle. Definitely an interesting subject for photography. In the following photograph ...
... you can see something that looks very similar. Maybe even a detail from the same kind of unidentified plant. Can't tell for sure.
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These three red autumnal leaves ready to fall down on the humid ground belong to the Cotinus coggygria, the deciduous shrub that grows in the inland northern parts of Istra, seventy to hundred kilometers from my hometown near the sea.
This is the silhouette of the Limbarda crithmoides. Limbarda crithmoides is a plant that grows in salt marshes and on coastal rocks.
This grass, the Setaria pumila, can be found in all kinds of lawns and meadows here in my area.
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Despite what the title suggests, you won't see only plants here. You'll see a couple of mantises too. The mantis in these two photographs, and the mantis in the following vertical shot ...
... are the same mantis, actually. An adult male of the European mantis (Mantis religiosa). The insect was photographed while resting on the Cichorium intybus plant.
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Here you can see two Empusa pennata mantisses. Two young wingless nymphs of that species. The one on the left was photographed on the bark of the pine tree, while the other was well-hidden in plain sight on the Rumex crispus plant.
AND THAT'S IT. THE POST ENDS HERE. THE FOLLOWING LINKS WILL TAKE YOU TO THE SITES WITH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE PROTAGONISTS OF THIS POST. I FOUND SOME STUFF ABOUT THEM THERE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicornia_fruticosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briza_media
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonium_narbonense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotinus_coggygria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_samphire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setaria_pumila