Feedback request: Ballota nigra (K001023919)

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Specimen #387677

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Ballota nigra L. ("Black Horehound")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Ballota nigra L. ("Black Horehound")
Collected by:	John Lester Gilbert
Collection date:	8/1949
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC32 Northamptonshire, Yarwell, TL0697, Origin Yarwell meadows [NE of Oundle] grown by Mr Gilbert in his garden at Wansford, Peterborough
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001023919
Image: © Kew
notes:	var foetida subvar albiflora - white form

Documented by oldnick on 10^th March 2015.

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oldnick wrote

Unusual species to plant in a garden!! perhaps as an investigation of whether white form grows true?