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confined to calcareous soils, it has been sparingly found in twenty-eight british counties, mostly in waste places, quarries and near old ruins. in scotland it is rare. under the shade of trees, on wooded hills, on chalk or limestone, it will grow most luxuriantly, forming bushy plants several feet high
open, and is more subject to the attacks of insects than when growing wild under natural conditions. [ top ] ---description--- the root is thick, fleshy and whitish, about inches long, or more, and branching. it is perennial. the purplishcoloured stem is annual and herbaceous. it is stout, to feet high...
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