''Wulfenia carinthiaca'', commonly known as wulfenia, is a plant in the plantain family. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the Gartnerkofel mountain of the

Carnic Alps The Carnic Alps ( it, Alpi Carniche; german: Karnische Alpen; sl, Karnijske Alpe; fur, Alps Cjargnelis) are a range of the Southern Limestone Alps in Austria and northeastern Italy. They are within Austrian East Tyrol and Carinthia, and Italia ...

at the Austria, Austro-Italian border. It was discovered in 1779 by

Franz Xaver von Wulfen Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants ''Wulfenia carinthiaca'', ''Saxifraga mo ...

, for whom it is named. It is cultivated as an

ornamental plant Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that i ...

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See it at Botanic Garden Carinthia in Klagenfurt - ''Wulfenia carinthiaca''

Plantaginaceae Flora of the Alps Flora of Austria Flora of Italy Garden plants of Europe Taxa named by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin {{Plantaginaceae-stub