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Valerianella carinata Loisel.

keeled-fruited corn-salad (Valerianaceae)

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Valerianella carinata grows in bare, rocky ground, mostly in the south-western half of the British Isles.

Gosport (VC11: South Hampshire); 2017-05-09

 keeled-fruited corn-salad / Valerianella carinata: _Valerianella carinata_ grows in bare, rocky ground, mostly in the south-western half of the British Isles.

The fruit of Valerianella carinata is longer than wide, and about as thick as wide, with a deep and broad depression along one face, and hardly any remnants of the calyx.

Gosport (VC11: South Hampshire); 2017-05-09

 keeled-fruited corn-salad / Valerianella carinata: The fruit of _Valerianella carinata_ is longer than wide, and about as thick as wide, with a deep and broad depression along one face, and hardly any remnants of the calyx.

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