It is one of the rare plants which can change their bodies and their functions in one growing season, to the extent that allows them to thrive in water and on land. This characteristic makes them amphibian.
Its remarkable adaptation, however, cannot save it from ambitious and inconsiderate human interferences in its habitat, which continues to disappear due to land drainage. In Slovenia it is endangered and, because of its beauty, also protected.
Mountain Pasqueflower
Long and cold winter, typical of the Notranjska region, not even for a second gives any hints of the Adriatic or Mediterranean influences on the flora in the Notranjska Regional Park. But immediately after the snow is gone, beautiful dark purple flowers emerge from their soil shelter.
