Feedback request: Ballota nigra (20604)

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Specimen #296176

Taxon:	Labiatae: Ballota nigra var. ruderalis Koch.
Filed in taxon folder:	Labiatae: Ballota nigra var. ruderalis Koch.
Collected by:	Mr George Claridge Druce
Collection date:	8/1895
Locality:	Great Britain, VC11 South Hampshire, Southampton, SU41
ex herb:	Druce Herbarium, Oxford
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by oldnick on 27^th April 2010.

Checked by keith barnett

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oldnick wrote

I see that CTW 2nd ed gives this var (ruderalis synonym ssp nigra) as rare and not native; and that Stace 2nd ed says reports of ssp nigra are all or nearly all errors. Both give the usualplant as ssp meridionalis (ssp foetida)