Onobrychis sphaciotica

Onobrychis sphaciotica is a rare chasmophyte with beautiful pink flowers. From a disatnce it looks a bit like Ebenus cretica.

One of the rarest flowers in Greece (it is listed in the Greek Red Data Book as vulnerable), it has a very limited distribution in the western White Mountains. This one was photographed in a cliff near the spring of Linoseli above the gorge of Samaria. It flowers from May to July and can reach a size of up to 80cm.

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