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Authors: Vill.  

Botanical Description

Leaves up to 10cm or rarely up to twice this in width, divided almost to the base into seven to nine lobes, each one cut into narrow lobules. Inflorescence compact. Flowers white with fine violet veining, more or less funnel-shaped, about 1.5cm long with purple anthers. Europe, in the western and central Alps, in larch and pine woods, scrub heaths and alpine meadows. Often considered to be a subspecies of G. sylvaticum but less effective in bloom and hardly suitable for even the larger rock garden.