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