Cymbalaria pallida

Cymbalaria pallida is a purple-flowered plant native only to mountainous parts of Italy. It belongs to the plantain family.

Description

Cymbalaria pallida is a perennial plant, high, with a short, pubescent and prostrate-ascending stem and opposite, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves. Calyx is densely hairy, with rounded lobes; corolla is wide, violet-lillac, with white center tinged with yellow and purple and ovate lobes in the lower petals. Spur is cylindrical, long. These plants bloom from June to August.

Distribution

This species is endemic to Italy. It can be found in major mountain areas, mainly in the Apennines of Abruzzo, at an elevation of above sea level.