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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Vinca herbacea''
| image = Vinca-herbacea1-crop.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Vinca herbacea'' leaves and flowers
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Gentianales]]
| familia = [[Apocynaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Vinca]]''
| species = '''''V. herbacea'''''
| binomial = ''Vinca herbacea''
| binomial_authority = [[Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein|Waldst.]] & [[Pál Kitaibel|Kit.]]
}}
'''''Vinca herbacea''''' ('''Herbaceous Periwinkle''') is a [[flowering plant]] native to eastern and southeastern [[Europe]], from [[Austria]] south to [[Greece]], and east to the [[Crimea]], and also in southwestern [[Asia]] east to the [[Caucasus]] and [[Alborz]] mountains. It grows mainly in [[steppe]] habitats.
It is a [[herbaceous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]] growing as a trailing vine, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form [[clonal colony|clonal colonies]], growing up to 10-20 cm high. The [[leaf|leaves]] are opposite, lanceolate, 1-5 cm long and 0.2-3 cm broad, glossy green with an entire margin, and nearly sessile with only a very short [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]]. The [[flower]]s are produced in late summer, blue-violet or occasionally white, 2.5-3.5 cm diameter, with a five-lobed corolla.
===Cultivation and uses===
It is occasionally grown in temperate [[gardens]] as a [[rock garden]] plant.
==References==
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Vinca&SPECIES_XREF=herbacea&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea: ''Vinca herbacea'']
*[http://web.kadel.cz/flora/e/kvCard.asp-Id=4888.htm Rock garden plants: ''Vinca herbacea'']
*[http://www.hlasek.com/vinca_herbacea_8400.html Photo]
*Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening'' 4: 664-665. Macmillan.
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Vinca herbacea''
| image = Vinca-herbacea1-crop.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''Vinca herbacea'' leaves and flowers
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Gentianales]]
| familia = [[Apocynaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Vinca]]''
| species = '''''V. herbacea'''''
| binomial = ''Vinca herbacea''
| binomial_authority = [[Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein|Waldst.]] & [[Pál Kitaibel|Kit.]]
}}
'''''Vinca herbacea''''' ('''Herbaceous Periwinkle''') is a [[flowering plant]] native to eastern and southeastern [[Europe]], from [[Austria]] south to [[Greece]], and east to the [[Crimea]], and also in southwestern [[Asia]] east to the [[Caucasus]] and [[Alborz]] mountains. It grows mainly in [[steppe]] habitats.
It is a [[herbaceous]] [[perennial plant|perennial]] growing as a trailing vine, spreading along the ground and rooting along the stems to form [[clonal colony|clonal colonies]], growing up to 10-20 cm high. The [[leaf|leaves]] are opposite, lanceolate, 1-5 cm long and 0.2-3 cm broad, glossy green with an entire margin, and nearly sessile with only a very short [[Petiole (botany)|petiole]]. The [[flower]]s are produced in late summer, blue-violet or occasionally white, 2.5-3.5 cm diameter, with a five-lobed corolla.
===Cultivation and uses===
It is occasionally grown in temperate [[gardens]] as a [[rock garden]] plant.
==References==
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Vinca&SPECIES_XREF=herbacea&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK= Flora Europaea: ''Vinca herbacea'']
*[http://web.kadel.cz/flora/e/kvCard.asp-Id=4888.htm Rock garden plants: ''Vinca herbacea'']
*[http://www.hlasek.com/vinca_herbacea_8400.html Photo]
*Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening'' 4: 664-665. Macmillan.