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Nice Milkwort
Polygala nicaeensis
40.1045, 22.4811
Field Notes
Description:
Tufted perennial from a decumbent woody base. Stems 15-30cm or more long, ascending. Lower leaves spathulate, the upper ones narrowly lanceolate to linear. Racemes of ten to forty flowers; when in bud, in the axils of slender bracts of equal or greater length. Flowers 8-11mm long, pink, less commonly blue, rarely white, summer. Variable in many small botanical details.
Habitat:
Southern and southern central Europe to south-eastern Russia, in dry, stony and grassy sites. Less hardy than the similar P. comosa and P. vulgaris.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 12, 2016
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