Distribution
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M. sylvestris is native to many parts of northern, middle, east, southeastern and southwestern Europe (USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program 2010).
Knowledge of its national distribution in Europe is as follows:
Knowledge of its national distribution in Europe is as follows:
- Finland: occurs in the southwest.
- Norway: scattered in the north; more common in south.
- Slovakia: common throughout the country (Marhold 1992).
- Netherlands: widespread (Mennema et al. 1985).
- Portugal: only in the north.
- Spain: widespread.
- France: widespread throughout the most of the country but not recorded in the departments of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis in the north, Rhône to the east or Lot-et-Garonne to the southwest (Association Tela Botanica 2000–2010).
- United Kingdom: widespread throughout the whole of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, although its distribution is patchy in northern Scotland (Preston et al. 2002).
- Ireland: widespread throughout the whole of the country (Preston et al. 2002).
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