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Linaria alpina (L.) Mill.

Flora Europaea The original Linnean specimens perennial, chasmophytic plant in Romania many times on calcareous screes calciphyle, mesoxeric-xeric, subalpine-alpine Alpine-Pyrinean-Carpathian-north western Balkan Cerastio lerchenfeldiani - Papaveretum R6109           One of the most beautiful and vividly colored alpine plant of Central Europe, unfortunately very rare in the Carpathians (in Romania present only in Piatra Craiului massif) Picture taken from outside Romania, in Eastern Alps, Austria, August 2009 Cristian Malos, PhD student, crism2807@yahoo.com