the Metropolitan natural area in July have decorated a variety of colors. Many of them are well familiar to Muscovites, but not everyone knows their correct names, and what plants to pluck strictly prohibited.
specialists have said HPBW “Mospeada”, rare for the city of the flowers listed in the Red book and they organized observation. For example, in the supervision list of the red data book of Moscow is. Most often these flowers are called daisies, although from a Botanical point of view it is wrong. Unlike of chamomile these plants in the family Asteraceae larger. The Russian name of the flower comes from the word “field” (locations).
Chamomile dye (the third category in the red book) also looks like a Daisy, but yellow. Dyeing it was nicknamed because of its ability to dye clothes. Meet flowers possible on wastelands, dry meadows, near houses and roads.
Bell spreading with inflorescences of blue-purple or white listed in the Red book of the city under the fifth category. The name of the flowers received from the Latin word campana “bell”. At night or in bad weather the bells lowered their heads down, so they get different insects to sleep or wait till it’s raining.
Another representative of this family, listed in the Red book under the third category. It can be found on the thick stem with hairs, which are blue-purple large inflorescences.
Besides, the rare species in Moscow is, it is called strawberry meadow. She is also listed in the Red book under the third category. The name of the plant received from the word “club” meaning “spherical, round body” — the berries of this form.
Polemonium caeruleum is often used in folk medicine, but in Moscow the number of these colors is steadily declining, so in the Red data book they are listed under the second category. This striking plant can be blue, blue and even purple.
Experts remind that all these plants are protected, so visitors can enjoy them just for the natural areas, but to pluck the flowers or to trample down the soil around them is impossible.
