Cymbalaria pallida is a purple-flowered plant native only to mountainous parts of Italy. It belongs to the plantain family (Plantaginaceae).Catalogue of lifeThe International Plant Names List
Description Cymbalaria pallida is a perennial plant, high, with a short, pubescent and prostrate-ascending stem and opposite, fleshy, kidney-shaped leaves. Calyx is densely hairy, with rounded lobes; corolla is wide, violet-lillac, with white center tinged with yellow and purple and ovate lobes in the lower petals. Spur is cylindrical, long. These plants bloom from June to August.Giovanni Galetti, Abruzzo in fiore, Edizioni Menabò - Cooperativa Majambiente, 2008Acta Plantarum
Distribution This species is endemic to Italy. It can be found in major mountain areas, mainly in the Apennines of Abruzzo, at an elevation of above sea level.
References
Bibliography Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2 ): 105–121, 2009, DOI:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x