Cymbalaria pallida
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| Cymbalaria pallida | |
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| Flowers of Cymbalaria pallida | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Cymbalaria |
| Species: | C. pallida |
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| Cymbalaria pallida (Ten.) Wettst. | |
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Cymbalaria pallida is a purple-flowered plant native only to mountainous parts of Italy. It belongs to the plantain family (Plantaginaceae).[1][2]
Cymbalaria pallida is a perennial plant, 5–15 centimetres (2.0–5.9 in) high, with a short, pubescent and prostrate-ascending stem and opposite, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves. Calyx is densely hairy, with rounded lobes; corolla is 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in) wide, violet-lillac, with white center tinged with yellow and purple and ovate lobes in the lower petals. Spur is cylindrical, 8–10 millimetres (0.31–0.39 in) long. These plants bloom from June to August.[3][4]
