Allionis bellflower
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Allionis bellflower ( Campanula alpestris ) is a species of bellflower ( Campanula ).
description
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Vegetative characteristics
Allionis bellflower is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 5 to 15 centimeters. It grows in small groups or individually. The aboveground parts of the plant are hairy. The stem is erect.
The basal leaves are arranged in rosettes , narrow-lanceolate , entire to weakly toothed and blunt . The stem leaves are linear .
Generative characteristics
The flowering period extends from June to August. The mostly single flowers are upright or inclined.
The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five calyx lobes are linear and coarsely hairy. In the calyx bays there are heart-shaped, turned back appendages. The cup is half the length of the crown. The crown is 3 to 4 centimeters long, bell-shaped, pale to deep purple-blue in color and glabrous or hairy on the nerves.
Occurrence
Allionis Bellflower is in Italy and France in the western and southwestern Alps endemic . It grows on calcareous slate and lime in stony lawns, rock debris and rock gravel. It thrives in the subalpine to alpine altitudes at altitudes of 1400 to 2800 meters.
supporting documents
- Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grau: Alpine flowers (Steinbach's natural guide). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1 .
