THE THAW FLOWERS
Spring illuminates the colors highlighting, in addition to green shades, also the first colored flowers that emerge from the soil with the beginning of the growing season. Especially in the valleys between late march and mid-april, when the first sun invades the ground after the thawing phase one can find some species of flowers which appear just after the disappearance of the snow.
SNOWDROP
A bell-shaped flower consisting of three petals that enclose an inner tube. It grows in moist and beech woods. It is one of the most common flowers in friuli venezia giulia, easily recognizable for its distinctive appearance and its very early flowering.
COWSLIP
Rosette with large oblong basal leaves, stems with single yellow flower with five petals. Both leaves and flowers are edible.
ERICA SCOPARIA
It creates thick bushes carpets, provided with branched woody stems. Its leaves resemble small pointy scales. Pink or lilac flowers with tube-shaped corolla with not very defined petals. Usually it is found in sparse forests, sunny slopes and limestone soils.
LIVERWORT OR ANEMONE HEPATICA
Small plant up to 15 cm, with fluffy brown stems. Only basal leaves formed by three rounded lobes. Purple or white flowers of six or seven petals arranged around a central white-yellow disk.
WILD SAFFRON
Small plant with very long leaves similar to blades of grass, with a longitudinal white streak. Each stem carries a single flower, from white to violet, made up of six petals, very closed at the start and then more open.
WHITE BUTTERFOR
Plant up to 40 cm with reddened stem and covered with scales at the base. The flowers are in bunches, white or cream colored. The leaves appear after the triangular flowers, white on the bottom and they can even reach 50 cm in length.
HELLEBORE
From 10 to 40 cm in height, with seven / eight elliptical basal leaves, dark green, leathery, white or slightly pink flowers, with a diameter up to 10 cm consisting of five large oval petals. The leaves are persistent throughout the year.
It is found in woods, shady places and limestone soil up to 1800 meters. It is very poisonous in all its parts.
ANEMONE OR WHITE ANEMONE
Plant from 10 to 30 cm in height, three-lobed leaves usually in mid stem, with lobes in turn lobed. Corolla with five / eight white petals sometimes slightly pink on the lower part. It lives in the woods and shady places up to 1800 meters on sea level.