Local endemities on Kopaonik

On the NP area, there are three rocksendemic plant species which grow only here in the whole world. And they are:

1. Sempervivum kopaonikensis (Kopaonička houseleek)

2. Viola kopaonikensis (Kopaonička violet) – the stem weakly branchy, The leaves egg-like to eggy-chainy, wavely jugged 1,5 cm long. In the leaf base there are two featherly splited offshots 1,5 cm. A flower is 2 cm in gauge , yellow, join of 5 unequal leaves of corona. The lower leaf is bigger then the others, with developed ostrug in a base. The fruit is three-sided capsule. Wide-spread: Local endemit of Kopaonik and it is located mostly on serpentin rocky grounds from 1500 to 2000 m (Kukavica, Nebeske stolice, Treska). Relatives: in spruce forests we can find V.biflora L. with kindey-shaped leaves and little yellow flowers.

3. Cardamine pancicii (Pančićeva režuha) – low bushy, from the base branchy. Branchies are folded. The low leaves on long trees, whole or weakly feathered with 4-8 eliptic leaves of first class, a termal leaves of whole rim. The white leaves, 1,5-1,8 cm in gauge, gruped in to clustered blossomy. Corona's leaves are egg-like, cut on the top, the leaves of drop chainy to 3,5 mm long. The fruits are husks, 15-35 mm long.

Wide-spread: Endemit of Balkan Penninsula. Mountain of south-west Serbia and Kosovo (Kopaonik, Prokletije).

It is relatively on serpentine and silicat, but rare on limestone rocky grounds and rocks, on the highs from 1500 and 2000 m (Kozje stene, Kukavica, Murska reka, Nebeske Stolice, Suvo Rudište, Treska).

Relatives: Glauca Spreng. is close relative which lives on Kopaonik and on the same habitats and sites, it has little diference from Pančićeva režuha in less number of long egg-like leaves of first class and termal leaves lobe.