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Althaea cannabina L.

Flora Europaea The original Linnean specimen perennial, H, 2n=28, tetraploid mesoxeric, ruderal western Palearctic Onopordion R87 or a ruderal invader in other habitats, especially in R34s         A beautiful and sporadically encountered weed, like its congeneric, Althaea officinalis. North of Tarnaveni, Mures county, August 2007 dr. Alexandru Badarau, alexandru@transsilvanica.com Valea Calda, west of Apahida, Cluj county, September 2010. A compact population with very unusual leaves. No such variety of the species was described as long as we know.