Spiked bellflower
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The spiked bellflower ( Campanula spicata ) is a species of bellflower ( Campanula ) in the bellflower family (Campanulaceae).
description
The spiked bellflower is a biennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 15 to 80 centimeters. The plant is wire-haired. The stem is simple and upright. The basal leaves are narrowly lanceolate, wavy on the edge and narrow into the stem. The stem leaves have a rounded base and are seated almost encompassing the stem. The numerous flowers are arranged in a more or less dense and long spike. They are blue-violet, 15 to 25 millimeters long and bell-shaped to funnel-shaped. Usually several flowers sit in a leaf corner. The calyx has blunt bays and no appendages. The calyx tips are hairy, lanceolate and about a third as long as the flower.
The flowering period extends from June to August.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.
Occurrence
The spiked bellflower occurs in the southern and central Alps, in the Apennines , in the Abruzzo and on the Balkan Peninsula. The species grows mainly in the montane zone on dry and stony soils on steep slopes, rocks, rubble heaps and rocky dry steppes in valleys up to altitudes of 2000 meters. It is scattered to frequent.
literature
- Gunter Steinbach (Ed.): Alpine flowers (Steinbach's natural guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Konrad Lauber, Gerhart Wagner: Flora Helvetica. Flora of Switzerland. Verlag Paul Haupt, Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna, 1996, ISBN 3-258-05405-3 , p. 978.
Web links
- Campanula spicata L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved April 6, 2016.