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This beautiful and distinctive flower has multibranched, finely-hairy stems from the base of the plant. After flowering, the long reddish, sharply-pointed calyces open up like 5-pointed stars sitting on white fuzzy "clouds".
Flowers.
Mar-May.
Size.
8-30 cm (low-short)
Flower Blossom.
25 mm. Very small pink, or sometimes yellow or purple, flowers are grouped tightly in a roundish flower-head about 25 mm across.
Leaves.
The small, stalked leaves are divided into 3 heart-shaped leaflets (3-leaf-clover shaped), slightly toothed at the ends.
Habitat.
Garrigue, fields, stony ground and roadsides.
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