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The specific epithet was spelled
“dahuricum” in FRPS; however, the protologue used the spelling
“davuricum.”
The flowers are large and ornamental.
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Description
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Herbs perennial, 50--100 cm tall, subglabrous or proximally villous. Stems stout, longitudinally striate. Leaves sessile, oblong to elliptic or ovate, 5--8 × 1.5--3 cm, base amplexicaul, apex subobtuse or acute. Cyme large, spreading; bracts leaflike, ovate. Flowers ca. 3 cm in diam.; pedicel 1--2.5(--6) cm. Sepals 5, glossy, elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 0.8--1.2 cm × 3.5--5 mm, margin membranous, apex acute. Petals white, obovate, 1.5--2 × as long as sepals; claw bearded; limb apex 2-lobed. Stamens equaling sepals. Styles 5. Capsule cylindric, straight, 1.5--2 × as long as calyx. Seeds dark brown, oblate, ca. 1.5 mm, acutely tuberculate. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep.
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Distribution
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N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia; SW Asia].
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Habitat
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Coniferous forests, hill scrub, meadows; (1000--)1900--2400 (--2800) m.
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Synonym
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Cerastium amplexicaule Sims.
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