Flora of Greece

Colchicum costurieri

specific species of the small island Chrissi of Ierapetra /Crete

( Image from : STIGMES, the magazine of Crete , http://stigmes.gr )

Arum creticum

Images from plants from Crete

Crocus Atticus

Tulipa Boeotica

Iris Cretica (Ίρις η κρητική)

Fraxinus orcnus

Quercus ilex

Quercus coccifera

Phillyrea media

Junipeus oxycedrus

Among the 1700 plants of Olymps:

Jankaea Heldreichii (γιαγκαία του Χέλντραϊχ) a species which grows only on Mount Olympus.

other 22 specific plants of Olymp:

  • Achillea ambrosiaca
  • Alyssum handelii
  • Asprerula muscosa
  • Aubrieta thessala
  • Campanula oreadum (καμπανούλα η ορειάδος )
  • Carum adamovicii
  • Centaurea incompleta (Κενταυρία η ασυμπλήρωτη )
  • Centaurea litochorea (Κενταυρία του Λιτόχωρου )
  • Centaurea transiens
  • Cerastrium theophrasti (κεράστιο του Θεόφραστου )
  • Erysimum olympicum
  • Festuca olympica (φεστούκα του Ολύμπου )
  • Genista sakellariadis
  • Ligusticum olympicum
  • Melampyrum ciliatum
  • Poa thessala (Ποία η Θεσσαλική )
  • Potentilla deorum (ποτεντίλλα των θεών )
  • Rynchosinapis nivalis
  • Silene dionysii
  • Silene oligantha (Σιληνή η ολιγανθής )
  • Veronica thessalica (Βερονίκη η Θεσσαλική )
  • Viola striis - notata (βιόλα του Ολύμπου )

The Biebersteinia orphanidis species was discovered by Theodoros G. Orphanides in 1851 on Mount Kyllini, after considered to be extinct it was found 1994 by D. Vassiliades and Th. Constantinides in a nearby mountain

Origanum dictamnus (Dittany of Crete)

List of national parks of Greece

Nassos Daphnis - a Life for Art and Peonies

John Fielding, N.J. Turland, Brian Matthew, Flowers of Crete , Royal Botanic Gardens,Kew, 2005, ISBN: 184246079X