The Flowers of Romania

- The Carpathian Mountains with altitudes of 2500m where you can encounter a lot of endemic and subendemic flowers like the Carpathian Bellflower (Campanula carpatica), the King’s Rock Pink (Dianthus callizonus), Artemisia petrosa and White Hellebore (Veratrum album). The alpine meadows hold an especially rich flora, including the Hepatica transsilvanica, plus Dianthus spiculifolius, Campanula patula (Spreading Bellflower), Trollius europaeus (Globeflower), Gentiana lutea (Yellow Gentian), Viola biflora (Yellow Wood-violet), Aster alpinus, Leontopodium alpinum and Rhododendron kotschyi, Digitalis grandiflora (Large Yellow Foxglove), Saxifraga corymbosa, Pedicularis verticillata (Whorled Lousewort), Gentiana verna (Spring Gentian), Campanula transsilvanica, Primula minima (Alpine Primrose) and Senecio integrifolius,Viola alpina (Alpine Pansy) and Viola dacica.

- The flora of Dobrogea region is very rich as it concentrates 1911 species on 16000 km square being comparable to the plant diversity of the Mediterranean islands Corsica and Crete this represents more than 50% of Romanian flora. This region represents a complex synthesis of the plant biogeographic areas as it is situated at the southern limit of the Central European and some Crimean species, at the northern limit of the Mediteranean-Balkanic – Pontic species and at the western limit of some Asiatic ones. The complex structure of the flora and its specificity, beside the Euro-Asiatic species (25%), is conferred by the high proportion of southern – Balcanic, Pontic – Mediterranean, Submediterranean species (25%) and by the Continental, steppe species (17%). The European and Central European (12%) and Circumboreal (4%) species are less frequent and occur on higher altitudes. All these features confer to Dobrogea the character of synthesis of southeast European flora and not only. A flower hunting trip to Dobrogea is more or less equivalent to a much larger visit to central Europe, northern Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, the Crimean Mountains and the steppes of Ukraine and Central Asia.

- The Danube Delta is the extreme Est of the European Union, with its 4,152 sq. km is the second largest Delta in Europe after Volga Delta. The total area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve is about 580,000ha, more than half of which embraces what is commonly called the “Danube Delta”. The remaining area is shared between the upstream Danube flood plain and the lagoon complex – Razelm Sinoe. The water plants and moor plants are abundant here so if you are intrerested in species like Water Chestnut (Trapa natans), Water ferns (Salvinia natans), Yellow Waterlilly (Nuphar lutea), White Waterlilly (Nymphaea alba) and many species of orchids than the Danube Delta is a must see.

The Wild Flowers of Romania

Carpathian Bellflower	Romanian Bellflower	Bellflower
Campanula carpatica	Campanula romanica	Asyneuma anthericoides
Dobrogean Pink	Pheasant's Eye	Ajuga
Dianthus nardiformis	Adonis vernalis	Ajuga laxmannii
Woolly Foxglove	Globe Daisy	Paronychia cephalotes
Digitalis lanata	Globularia punctata	Paronychia cephalotes
Ukrainian Fethergrass	Milk Vetch	Sicilian honey lily
Stipa ucrainica	Astragalus monspessulanus	Nectaroscordum siculum bulgaricum
Drooping star of Bethlehem	Pasqueflower	Balkan peony
Ornitogalum nutans	Pulsatila patens	Paeonia peregrina
Silk Vine	Meadow Saffron	Autumn Crocus
Periploca graeca	Colcicum autumnale	Crocus pallasii
Nodding sage	Soldanela	Oriental campion
Salvia nutans	Soldanela hungarica	Silene compacta
Fringed Water-lily	Water chestnut	Water ferns
Nymphoides peltata	Trapa natans	Salvinia natans and Azolla filiculoides
Iris	The yellow variable Flower-de-Luce	Red Helleborine
Iris sintenisy	Iris variegata	Cephalanthera rubra
White Helleborine	Greater Butterfly-orchid	Lizard orchid
Cephalanthera damasonium	Platanthera clorantha -verdastra	Himantoglossum hircinum
Violet limodore	Bug orchis	Green-Winged Orchid
Limodorum abortivum	Orchis coriophora	Orchis morio picta
Puple Orchid	Monkey Orchid	Three-toothed orchid
Orchis purpurea	Orchis simia	Orchis tridentata