Når man vandrer i fjellet, så kan man uforvarende snuble over små skjønnheter man ikke aner så mye om. Riktignok hadde jeg den lykke å kunne bo i relativ trygghet langt oppe i fjellet gjennom den 2. verdenskrig og kjente på den tid den lokale fauna ganske godt selv til guttunge å være, men – idag er det mer enn 75 år siden! Og min ellers relativt brukbare
hukommelse får stadig flere huller. Ganske store hull, til og med! 🙂
Så kom jeg over denne lille ‘skjønnheten’ nær et lite bekkefar! Den kan minne om en plante jeg for 75 år siden kjente som ‘Harelabb’, men – jeg er idag langt fra sikker på om dette var den planten? Vakker der den i alle fall, og derfor presenterer jeg den her i håp
om at en annen fjellvandrer vet hva ‘hun’ egentlig heter?
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Ai ai, – en av mine mange lesere (40thousandkm) satte meg på sporet, og jammen fungerte min gamle hukommelse! Denne ‘prinsessen’ har veldig mange navn:
Kattelabb, harelabb, jaselabb, puselabb, bikkjelabber, revelabb, harefot, antueldgras, gustegras, vortegras,
When you hike in the mountains, you can inadvertently stumble upon small beauties you have little idea about. Admittedly, I had the good fortune to be able to live in relative safety far up in the mountains through the Second World War and at that time knew the local fauna quite well even for a boy to be, but – today it is more than 75 years ago! And mine otherwise relatively usable memory gets more and more holes. Pretty big holes, even! 🙂
Then I came across this little ‘beauty’ near a small creek! It may be reminiscent of a plant I knew 75 years ago as ‘Harelabb’, but – today I am far from sure if this was that plant? Beautiful at least, and therefore I present it here in the hope that another mountain hiker knows what ‘she’ is really called?
And one of my followers was able to set me right! And nice to know that my memory still serves me right (even if I don’t trust it to do so! 🙂 ) (Please see Norwegian text-block)
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Ja, må innrømme at jeg ikke kan huske å ha lagt merke til den blomsten før? Sjelden?
Nei, det tror jeg ikke, men jeg tror kanskje den foretrekker ‘over 7-800 meter’?
It’s a beauty and very unique!
The funny part is that I thought >I recognized this plant from my childhood during WWII when I was living at a farm high into the mountains, but- it’s more than 75 years ago so I faltered . . .
Maybe this was another plant altogether? But it was not! I hit the nail on the head – after 75 years! I will remember this plant forever! 🙂
I am sure you will! Awesome! 😉
Thank you!
You’re welcome! 😉
That is probably antennaria dioica (mountain everlasting) 🙂 Beautiful!
Thank you!!! That’s what I have always said: You may get the answer to just about anything on a blog, especially when the blog is read in more than 130 different countries all over the world! 🙂
My pleasure 🙂 Yes, blogs are powerful! 😀
And we were both right! As you may see now: There are a bunch of Norwegian names to this flower, and one of them was exactly what I seemed to remember from my childhood!
Only I didn’t quite recognize the plant itself, but that I can understand as it looks a bit different the older it gets. But thank you so much for putting me right!
It has a lot of names in English too 🙂 Among them: “catsfoot” 😀
Oh yes, a dozen names depending on the country! 🙂
Such beauty and no name – it’s a shame!
Beautiful.