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A widespread Alpine member of section Auricula. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 3-18cm long and l-5cm wide, usually toothed towards the apex, fleshy, viscid and fragrant with glandular hairs. Flowers fragrant, bright reddish-violet or purple l-2cm across, in umbels of two to twenty, rarely to fifty, on stems 3-20cm high. Occurs in three separated areas of the Alps (Alpes Maritimes, Cottians (f. cynoglossifolia), and east Switzerland to west Austria (f. graveolens), and in the Pyrenees, in rocks and shady crevices on acid rocks at 1900-2700m. Fairly easy and persistent in a north-facing crevice in a trough or the rock garden. Resents pot culture.
