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Spoil Tip In Tarnowskie Góry
The spoil tip () in Tarnowskie Góry, Poland, was formed from the accumulation of Dolomite (rock), dolomite waste during the peak of lead, silver, and zinc ore extraction at the (German: ''Königliche Friedrichsgrube'') in (now part of Tarnowskie Góry). Since 2006, the site has been protected as part of the Hałda Popłuczkowa culture park, which is listed in the municipal registry of historical sites in Tarnowskie Góry, covering an area of 6.77 hectares. In 2017, the spoil tip, along with 27 other sites, was included on the UNESCO lists of World Heritage Sites. Location The spoil tip is located in the southern part of Tarnowskie Góry, in the district, approximately 4 km from the city center, near the border with Bytom. It borders agricultural areas and the disused quarry of the former Bobrowniki dolomite mine. Nearby, there is also the and the Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry, Historic Silver Mine. To the east of the spoil tip runs the tourist line of the fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarnowskie Góry
Tarnowskie Góry (; ; ) is a city in Silesia, southern Poland, located in the Silesian Highlands near Katowice and seat city of Tarnowskie Góry County Located in the north of the Metropolis GZM, a megalopolis (city type), megalopolis, the greater Katowice-Ostrava metropolitan area populated by about 5,294,000 people. The population of the town is 61,842 (2021) making it one of the biggest towns in Poland. As of 1999, it is part of Silesian Voivodeship, previously Katowice Voivodeship. The Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry, Historic Silver Mine of Tarnowskie Góry, a UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the town. Names and etymology The name of Tarnowskie Góry is derived from ''Tarnowice'', name of a local village and word ''góry'' which in Old Polish meant "mines". In a Prussian document from 1750 (published in the Polish language in Berlin by Frederick the Great [1712–1786]), the town is mentioned, among other Silesian towns, as "Tarnowskie Góry". The German n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betula Pendula
''Betula pendula'', commonly known as silver birch, warty birch, European white birch, or East Asian white birch, is a species of tree in the family (biology), family Betulaceae, native plant, native to Europe and parts of Asia, though in southern Europe, it is only found at higher altitudes. Its range extends into Siberia, China, and southwest Asia in the mountains of northern Turkey, the Caucasus, and northern Iran. It has been introduced into North America, where it is known as the European white birch or weeping birch and is considered Invasive species, invasive in some states in the United States and parts of Canada. The silver birch is a medium-sized deciduous tree that owes its common name to the white peeling bark on the trunk. The twigs are slender and often pendulous and the leaves are roughly triangular with Glossary of leaf morphology#Edge, doubly serrate margins and turn yellow and brown in autumn before they fall. The flowers are catkins and the light, winged se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilosella Officinarum
''Pilosella officinarum'' (synonym ''Hieracium pilosella''), known as mouse-ear hawkweed, is a yellow-flowered species of flowering plant in the daisy family Compositae (= Asteraceae), native to Europe and northern Asia. It produces single, lemon-coloured inflorescences. Like most hawkweed species, it is highly variable and is a member of a species complex of several dozens of subspecies and hundreds of varieties and forms. It is an allelopathic plant. Description It is a hispid (hairy) perennial plant, with a basal rosette of leaves. The whole plant, with the exception of the flower parts, is covered in glandular hairs, usually whitish, sometimes reddish on the stem. The rosette leaves are entire, acute to blunt, and range from long and broad. Their underside is tomentose (covered with hair). The flowering stem ( scape) is generally between tall, and sprouts from the centre of the basal rosette. The flowerheads are borne singly on the scape and are a pale lemon-yellow colou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sedum Acre
''Sedum acre'', commonly known as the goldmoss stonecrop, mossy stonecrop, goldmoss sedum, biting stonecrop, and wallpepper, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is native to Europe, northern and western Asia and North Africa, but is also naturalised in North America, southern South America, Japan, and New Zealand. Description The biting stonecrop is a tufted evergreen perennial that forms mat-like stands some tall. For much of the year, the stems are short, semi-prostrate and densely clad in leaves. At the flowering time in June and July, the stems lengthen and are erect, somewhat limp and often pinkish-brown with the leaves further apart. The leaves are alternate, fleshy and shortly cylindrical with a rounded tip. They are also sometimes tinged with red. The starry flowers form a three to six-flowered cyme. The calyx has five fleshy sepals fused at the base, the corolla consists of five regular bright yellow petals, there are ten stamens, a separate g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koeleria Glauca
''Koeleria glauca'', commonly known as blue hair grass, is a grass species of the genus ''Koeleria''. It grows in dunes and other sandy places. It is mainly distributed in eastern Central Europe, with its western outposts in the coastal dunes of Jutland and inland dunes in the Rhine Valley Rhine Valley (German: ''Rheintal'' ) is the valley, or any section of it, of the river Rhine in Europe. Particular valleys of the Rhine or any of its sections: * Alpine Rhine Valley ** Chur Rhine Valley (or Grisonian Rhine Valley; , or sometimes .... Description The plant's foliage is bluish-grey and grows to a height of . Its flowers bloom from May to July and can reach a height of . References External links *Flora Europae*Nordic virtual flor Pooideae {{Pooideae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corynephorus Canescens
''Corynephorus canescens'', common name grey hair-grass or gray clubawn grass, is a species of plants in the Poaceae, grass family, native to Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa but widely naturalized in North America. In the United Kingdom it is rare. It can be found at sites such as Wangford Warren and Carr, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Breckland area of Suffolk.Wangford Warren and Carr , SSSI citation, Natural England. Retrieved 2013-03-03.Breckland Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 2014-03-03. Description It has panicles which are long and wide. Its pedicels are in l ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centaurea Scabiosa
''Centaurea scabiosa'', or greater knapweed, is a perennial plant of the genus ''Centaurea''. It is native to Europe and bears purple flower heads. Greater knapweed is found growing in dry grasslands, hedgerows and cliffs on lime-rich soil. Upright branched stems terminate in single thistle-like flowerheads, each having an outer ring of extended, purple-pink "ragged" bracts which form a crown around the central flowers. The plant has deeply dissected leaves which form a clump at the base. This species is very valuable to bees. It is also a magnet for many species of butterfly. Among them is the marbled white. This is the only known food plant for caterpillars of the Coleophoridae case-bearer moth '' Coleophora didymella''. ''Centaurea scabiosa'' has been used in traditional herbal healing as either a vulnerary or an emollient. The plant is sometimes confused with devils-bit scabious, however the leaves on this plant are arranged alternately, whereas in devils-bit they are op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scabiosa Ochroleuca
''Scabiosa ochroleuca'', commonly known as cream pincushions or cream scabious, is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae), characterized by its creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia, where it typically grows in grasslands, Meadow, meadows, and open Woodland, woodlands. References Scabiosa, ochroleuca Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Dipsacales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epipactis Helleborine
''Epipactis helleborine'', the broad-leaved helleborine, is a terrestrial species of orchid with a broad distribution. It is a long lived herb which varies morphologically with ability to self-pollinate. Description ''Epipactis helleborine'' can grow to a maximum height of or more under good conditions, and has broad dull green leaves which are strongly ribbed and flat. The flowers are arranged in long drooping racemes with dull green sepals and shorter upper petals. The lower labellum is pale red and is much shorter than the upper petals. Achlorophyllous, white ''Epipactis helleborine'' plants have been found. Achlorophyllous forms tend to be shorter, as small as 17 cm. Flowering occurs June–September. Distribution This species is widespread across much of Europe and Asia, from Portugal to China, as well as northern Africa. In the United Kingdom, the species is widespread and common in England and Wales, but is absent from most of Scotland scattered across Ireland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlina Acaulis
''Carlina acaulis'', the stemless carline thistle, dwarf carline thistle, or silver thistle, is a perennial dicotyledonous flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe. The specific name ''acaulis'' (Neo-Latin for 'without a stem', from Latin ''caulis'' 'stem' or 'stalk') and common names are descriptive of the manner in which its flower head rests directly upon a basal leaf rosette. The plant is named after Charlemagne who searched for a treatment against the plague. He dreamed of an angel who told him to shoot an arrow in the sky and see on what plant the arrow would hit. This plant would bring relieve to the plague. The plant the arrow hit was the ''Carlina acaulis,'' the roots of the plant were distributed among the population following which the plague diminished. The spiny, pinnatilobate leaves grow in a basal rosette approximately 20 cm in diameter. The flowers are produced in a large (up to 10 cm) flowerhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centaurium Erythraea
''Centaurium erythraea'' is a species of flowering plant in the Gentianaceae, gentian family known by the names common centaury and European centaury. It is also commonly known as “feverfoullie”, “gentian” or “centaury”. Description This is an upright biennial herb which reaches half a meter in height. It grows from a small basal rosette and bolts a leafy, upright stem which may branch. The triangular leaves are arranged oppositely on the stem and the upright inflorescences emerge from the stem and grow parallel to it, sometimes tangling with the foliage. Each inflorescence may contain many flowers. The petite flower is pinkish-lavender and about a centimeter across, flat-faced with yellow stamen, anthers. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule. It flowers from June until September. Distribution and habitat This centaury is a widespread plant of Europe (including Scotland, Sweden and Mediterranean countries) and parts of western Asia and northern Africa. It has also na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thymus Pulegioides
''Thymus pulegioides'', common names broad-leaved thyme or lemon thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe. Growing to tall by wide, it is a small spreading subshrub with strongly aromatic leaves, and lilac pink flowers in early summer. The specific epithet ''pulegioides'' highlights its similarity to another species within Lamiaceae, ''Mentha pulegium'' (pennyroyal). Description Broad-leaved thyme is a creeping dwarf evergreen shrub with woody stems and a taproot. It is rather similar to wild thyme (''Thymus serpyllum'') but it is larger, the leaves are wider and all the stems form flowering shoots. The reddish stems are squarish in cross-section and have hairs on the edges. The leaves are in opposite pairs with short stalks, and the linear ovate blades have tapering bases and untoothed margins. The plant flowers in July and August. The usually pink or mauve flowers form rounded umbels and each has a tube-like calyx and an irregular straig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
