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Widespread and fairly frequent throughout the UK. Habitat includes: Damp grassy places such as damp meadows, banks of ditches and streams, marshes, roadside verges, hedgebanks, lane-sides etc.

Stace 4:

Ssp. sambucifolia (J.C. Mikan ex Pohl) W.R. Hayw. (V. sambucifolia J.C. Mikan ex Pohl).

Stolons present; middle stem-leaves with mostly 5-13 usually dentate leaflets, the terminal one the widest; 2n=56, 70. Damp grassy places throughout Britain and Ireland.

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Kew (as V. excelsa subsp. sambucifolia)

GBIF (as V. excelsa subsp. sambucifolia)