Tekirska mishorka

Tekirska mishorka (Gypsophila tekirae) is an endemic species, a perennial herbaceous in the family Caryophyllaceae, planting only in Bulgaria, in the Pazardjik district, in the Besarapski hills near the villages Ognyanovo, Sinitevo and Hadjievo. The species can be seen nowhere else in the world. The plant is a protected one. The Tekirska mishorka was described and classified for the first time in 1929 by the Bulgarian botanist Academician Boris Stefanov. The name tekire (tekirae) comes from the old name of the Tri Voditsi village, which was once named Tekire. In fact the Tekirska mishorka does not plant near the Tri Voditsi village, but when it was collected for the first time in the vicinity of the village of Hadjievo, the Academician pointed the name of the more popular of the time adjacent village of Tekira. The plant is threatened by quarry opened, the artificial forestation, the increase of the intensity of the land cultivating the and the invasion of Ailanthus altissima. It flowers June-August, most often in July.