Cymbalaria muralis - ivy-leaved toadflax

	DISSEMINATION

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/