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Table 3 Plant species (30) that were asked in interviews but were probably little or not known by local svinjars (no data on pig foraging was reported or observed)

From: Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)

Species name

Occurrence in the area

Probable level of local knowledge by svinjars

Additional information

Acer negundo L

Recently spreading in the area

Little known

Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara and Grande

Common in shady places

Not known

Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Anemone ranunculoides L

Very rare in the forest

Not known

Armoracia macrocarpa (Willd.) Baumg

Rare in the marshes

Not known

Asarum europaeum L

Very rare in the forest

Very little known

Local name: kopitjnak

Betula pendula Roth

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Little known

Breza, in the village

Campanula trachelium L

Moderately rare in the forest

very little known

Local name: zvončić

Corydalis cava (L.) Schweigg. and Körte

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick and Wilkin

Rare in the forest

Little known

Frangula alnus Mill

Not rare in the forest

Very little known

Galium odoratum (L.) Scop

Moderately rare in the forest

Not known

Gentiana pneumonanthe L

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Glycyrrhiza echinata L

Not rare in open spaces

Very little known

Hottonia palustris L

Very rare in the marshes

Not known

Hydrocharis morsus-ranae L

Common in the marshes

Very little known

A kind of lokvanj

Lathraea squamaria L

probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Lathyrus vernus (L.) Bernh

Very rare in the forest

Not known

Lotus corniculatus L

Relatively rare locally

Very little known

Maianthemum bifolium (L.) F. W. Schmidt

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Melampyrum nemorosum L

Probably doesn’t occur any more

Not known

Nymphoides peltata (S. G. Gmel.) Kuntze

Occurs on one lake only

Very little known

Polygonatum multiflorum (L.) All

Rare in the forest

Not known

Ranunculus trichophyllus Chaix

Common in marshes

Very little known

A kind of ljutić (Ranunculus), paprat (insignificant)

Rhamnus cathartica L

Not rare in the region

Very little known

Local name: kereće grožđe

Salvinia natans (L.) All

Not rare in flooded wetlands

Very little known

Lokvanj in the Bosut

Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Clairv

Sporadic in wet areas

Very little known

Sparganium erectum L

Sporadic in wetlands

Not known

Stratiotes aloides L

At only one marsh

Not known

Vinca minor L

Rare in the forest

Little known

In gardens