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            In springtime short turf is growing everywhere, with a number of "small flowers" scattered in. It reminds you Botticelli's painting, and it is a ravishing sight. You may find different flower according to elevation and soil. Everywhere Oxalis pes-caprae is growing, it is in fact a troublesome south-african weed. Several "daisies" are also common: yeloow to orange Calendula, gold-yellow Chrysanthemum coronarium. In mountains you can also find an Erodium and a Geranium (tuberosum ?). A number of Leguminosae (peas and trifolium family) are also blooming, most of them being yellow, several Coronilla, Vicia and Lotus can be seen; but one of the most striking member of the family is a red-flowered Tetragonolobus. .