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English
name:
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Own
language name: pensée calaminaire
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| Description: perennial plant, 8 - 40 cm high, whith long rhizome, Yellow flowers from mei to augustus, 1 - 25 mm of diameter. Petales are longer than sepales. |
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Distribution: Only
in Wallonie, in the bassins of la Vesdre and la Gueule. and in the
neighbourhood of Liège.
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Habitat:
lawns of calamine.
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Report about the reasons of the risk: dsiparition of the calaminaireous lawn |
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Categoria IUCN: 2, EN, endangered
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Possible solutions: preservation
of the lawn of calamine.
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Culinary, medicinal and/or medicinal properties:
There are
a lot of recipes with viola flowers in salad preparation.
But Viola
calaminaria may accumulate heavy metals that's why the flowers can't
be used in salad like other species of viola.
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Appearance in
the Literature and Arts:
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