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Achillea nobilis L. ssp. neilreichii (A. Kerner) Velen.  Coada-soricelului nobila

Flora Europaea original Linnean specimen (only the typical species) perennial, H, 2n=45 mesoxeric , thermophyle mostly nearby the nemoral thermophylic forests and in the nemoral forest-steppe areas Central European-Pontic Festucetalia valesiacae, Syringo-Carpinion orientalis, Prunion fruticosae R34 and R35 habitats, but also R3122-3131 bushy mesoxeric thermophilic habitats in Romania mostly in the southern and western regions, where average multiannual temperature exceeds 9 degr C.           This species is not so frequent in Romania as some manuals suggest but it is quite spread in the areas where the multiannual mean temperature exceeds 9 degrees C. The species is a thermophilic western Palearctic element, the subspecies is a Central European - Pontic one. The pictures below are taken in the Curvature Subcarpathians, in the clearing of a forest near Podu Cristii, Vrancea county on 11th of august 2006 dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com