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Cardamine heptaphylla
Herbaceous deciduous perennial flowering plant; sporting large leaves most often composed of seven leaflets. The inflorescence is composed of large four-petaled white or pink flowers. Grows in massifs.
Native to Europe, and common in mountainous regions - massifs of these are common sight on edges of Jura mountain forests. These ones here were observed in Natural Reserve of Jura mountain range, at 900m approx; on edge of a mixed forest, and on shoulders of forest roads; in partial shade.
In some regions of France, this flower is protected.
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