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Fritillaria involucrata
To you all Fritillaria experts,I would be grateful if you could identify this species in flower now in the Val Rosandra meadows near Trieste - Italy.Thank you in advance.Matt
Matt - your plant looks like F. meleagris which is widespread throughout Europe, including Italy. However, I've never seen one with so much yellow in the flower. Are they all like this?
The bigger problem for me with F. meleagris is not only the aspect but also the growing conditions. The dry, sun backed and stony meadows near Trieste have nothing to do with the fertile and very wet meadow at Magdalen College.M
Matt - I have just looked more carefully at your second set of photos. These appear to show a whorl of 3 leaves (bracts) below the flower. This suggests F. orientalis (synonyms: F. tenella, F. montana) also recorded from Italy.
Lovely frits, everyone. Graham, your "unknown" is F. affinis tristulis