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Flowers: March -
April.
A strongly smelling perennial plant of
up to 80 cm high with palmate, toothed leaves. The
flower buds and bell-shaped flowers are yellowish green with a
purple rim. They have a nodding
(hanging) habit. They are pollinated by honey and bumble bees. The
fruit is a cluster of 3 follicles.
This plant occurs
very occasionally (from Yorkshire downwards) in dry, calcareous shrub and
woodland, often on shallow soil and rocky places, but it is
more often a naturalised escape from gardens.
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