Family: moschatels (Adoxaceae)
Flowering time: March–May
Size: 5–15 cm
Habitat: wet forests, forest edges, shrubby slopes and banks
Common moschatel (Adoxa moschatellina) is a small plant that is easily overlooked among other understory vegetation. Moschatel spreads in the soil by a creeping horizontal rhizome, from which up to three erect stems arise. At the top of the stem a headlike inflorescence forms, consisting of five to seven sessile flowers. The flowers are yellow-green. The lateral flowers are pentamerous, the upper is usually tetramerous. The long-petioled basal leaves of common moschatel are one- to three-times tripinnate; likewise, the opposite stem leaves are divided in the same way.
Common moschatel grows in partial shade on moist, nitrogen-rich soils throughout Slovenia.
