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SCIENTIFIC NAME
COMMON NAME
THUMBNAILS
Kingdom Plantae
Sub Kingdom Tracheobionta (vascular plant)
Superdivision Spermatophyta (seed plant)
Division Magnoliophyta (flowering plant)
Class Magnoliopsida (dicotyledon)
Order Scrophulariales
Family Scrophulariaceae
Genus Cymbalaria
Species muralis
Classification P.G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.
Common Name ivy-leaved toadflax

Geographic Range it is native to the Alps, Yugoslavia, Central and southern Italy, Sicily and it is widespread almost all over southern, western and central Europe.
Physical Characteristics perennial herbaceous plant, from 10 to 80 centimeters high. The stem is glabrous and may be prostrate, crawling or pendulous. The leaves are alternate, quite fleshy, reniform, palmate-lobate with 5-7 lobes. Solitary flowers are violet and white, long peduncles bear them at the leaf-axil; the corolla is bilabiate, light violet with some yellow spots on the lower trilobe lip. It blooms from June to September. The fruit is a small capsule, longer than the calyx.
Notes it tolerates alkaline soils.
Habitat it grows on ruins and walls.

Sources  
References Ulster Museum
Web References http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/
Source of the photo http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/flora/

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