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Meum is a monotypic genus with one species, Meum athamanticum (baldmoney, spignel), a hardy, aromatic perennial of mountain grassland, especially on limestone. It is a wild plant, not commonly grown in gardens, so care notes are general guidance for a perennial of this type.
Meum is a monotypic genus in the family Apiaceae. Its only species is Meum athamanticum, a glabrous, highly aromatic (aroma compound), perennial plant. Common names in the UK include baldmoney, meu or meum, and spignel (also spikenel and spiknel).
It is a plant of grassland, often on limestone, in mountain districts of Western Europe and Central Europe, its range extending as far south as the Sierra Nevada (Spain) of Andalucia, and central Bulgaria in the Balkans. It is not a very common plant in the UK, being found in only a few localities in N. England and N. Wales although a little more plentiful in Scotland – where it is found as far north as Sutherland.
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