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Wulfenia carinthiaca

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Authors: Jacq.  

Botanical Description

Broadly clump-forming, spreading by short rhizomes. Basal leaves fairly crowded, oblanceolate to obovate, crenate, lustrous, tapering to a short petiole, 8-17cm long. Flowers 1.2-1.5cm long, deep violet-blue in dense racemes 6-10cm long on peduncles 15-30cm tall, bearing a few small leaf-like bracts, late summer. Southeastern Alps, in damp grassland at 1500-2000m.