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Native of Eurasia. Sandy or gravelly, usually disturbed places including roadsides, fields, parking lots, lawns and grassy banks, pine-oak savanna. First collected in 1894 in Kent Co.

Leaves of this species have some hooked hairs on the midrib beneath, while these are lacking in M. verna and M. discolor.

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