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Stace 4:

Ssp. officinale.

Stems often >1m; corolla >16mm, cream, purplish or sometimes striped dark and light purple, rarely white; 2n=44 (rare), 48. By streams and rivers, in fens and marshy places, also roadsides and rough ground; locally frequent in British Isles, but less common than and over-seeded for S. x uplandicum. The flowers that are not purplish are often wrongly described as white; except for very rare albinos they are cream.