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Description:

This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.