2010.07.04 Czech Republic, esk Krumlov (mixed forest - mainly broadleaf, umava national park 825 m AMSL).Both are common, Filipendula flowering from june till august, Lupinus from june till september.Lupinus is not native and potentially invasive; the plant was introduced not only as ornamental plant but also as fodder (for deer too, seeded in forests) and for re-greening of roadside slopes after construction work - both worked (and still works) in favour of establishing this one in the Central European fauna.While Lupinus is potentially invasive it isn't as 'dangerous' as other species - actually it seems that Lupinus, a typical pioneering plant, is disappearing from habitats as soon as more competitive native plants manage to establish themselves there.German names: Gewhnliches Gross-Mdesss (Filipendula); Stauden-Lupine (Lupinus)ID: Fischer & al., Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)
2009.07.28: Austria, Vienna X. district, 188 m AMSL, dry brownlands.Flowering in july (may continue till october): dry plant, rolling (steppe roller: while rolling its seeds are shed).Very common in Pannonian region.German names: Sicheldolde, Sichelmhre.ID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora 3rd
2010-10-10 Hungary, Nyugat-Dunntl - Western Transdanubia, county Vas (840 m AMSL).This place lies a short distance below rott-k - Geschriebenstein peak; the foreground is a more or less natural spruce-beech-fir forest - with Fagus sylvatica and spruce shown in the photo -, while in the background you can see spruce monoculture - Picea abies - older than the (now dismantled) Iron Curtain (trees at least 60-80 years old, many a hundred or more).Even though the Austrian border is not far you can only see Hungarian territory here.So while the forests on the Hungarian side of this mountain are more natural by magnitudes than those on the Austrian side there are still a few monocultures there.