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Although it is a lowland plant growing at the roadside in the north of Scotland, P. palustris in Europe is often an alpine found in marshy areas and damp meadows up to 8,200 feet - nearly twice as high as our highest UK mountain Ben Nevis.

 

Parnassia palustris

Parnassia palustris Grass-of-Parnassus

Val de Fain, Engadine, Switzerland, 6th July 2010

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Parnassia palustris Grass-of-Parnassus

Val de Fain, Engadine, Switzerland, 6th July 2010

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