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Märzenbecher

The Märzenbecher sprouts its flowers from the onion that hibernates in the ground as early as mid-March. This well-known early bloomer thrives in the wild, especially in damp deciduous forests and on wet meadows. Well-known wild occurrences can be found in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains and in the Leipzig floodplain forest. The Märzenbecher is sometimes also referred to as the spring knot flower.

Chess flower

The critically endangered Chess flower belongs to the lily family. All Lilies have underground storage organs, mostly onions, with which they survive the winter and sprout in early spring. The chess flower occurs mainly in the damp river and moor meadows. Due to its bell-shaped, purple-red flowers with a white checkerboard pattern on the inside, it cannot be confused with any other species.

Cowslips

The native cowslips are particularly endangered by being excavated and picked and are therefore under nature protection. The high cowslip, also called odorless cowslip or sky key, grows mainly in slightly damp deciduous forests and on meadows. Its light yellow flowers open from late March to May. The strong yolk yellow flowers of the meadow cowslip, also known as the scented cowslip, can only be found from the end of April to June. The plant thrives in dry and warmer locations, meadows, semi-arid meadows and light deciduous forests.

Gentians

There are about ten different ones in Germany Gentian species. Most of them are by bog drainage as well as by that Fertilization of meadows become very rare and critically endangered. This also applies to the five to 20 centimeter high springgentian, which opens its individual sky-blue flowers as early as March / April. In the cooler climate of the Ice Age, he had settled large parts of Europe and Asia. Today the spring gentian grows mainly in mountainous areas. There are only very few sites left, for example in the cold flat moors of Thuringia.

violet

There are several common ones in Germany Violet species which all bloom blue-violet. On the other hand, we rarely find two other types of violets that are under nature protection. The two-flowered violet can be easily recognized by the yellow color of its flowers. He always has two flowers on one stem. It inhabits moist locations in many mountains. The endangered bog violet, which differs from the other violet-flowered species, is even rarer due to its drooping central petals, which do not cover the upper petals of the flower, differs.

Tips & Tricks

Many of the ones featured hereSpecies growing in the wild may not be plucked or dug up from their locations. You can, however, force their spread by obtaining seeds or bulbs of these early bloomers legally in stores.

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