Native Range
Kasimierz Browicz made an extensive study of literature and plant specimens, and concluded that the
true homeland is only in the south-eastern part of the Balkan peninsula, in Asia Minor, on the Caucasus, Crimea, northern Iran and possibly also in Turkmenia.
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