Single-flowered bellflower
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Single flowered bellflower ( Campanula uniflora ) in Greenland |
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Campanula uniflora | ||||||||||||
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The Campanula uniflora ( Campanula uniflora ) is a plant type from the genus of bellflowers ( Campanula ) in the family of bell flower plants (Campanulaceae).
description
The single-flowered bellflower is a perennial plant with unbranched stems that are 10 to 15 cm high, hairless and upright. The leaves are hairless, entire or notched. The basal leaves are about 2 cm long, inversely lanceolate, blunt and very short stalked. The central stem leaves are lanceolate, the upper ones linear-lanceolate.
A single flower , nodding, forms on each stem . The calyx teeth are erect, pointed and hardly hairy. The crown is 7 to 9 mm long, funnel-shaped and as long as the calyx tube. The ovary is long, club-shaped and rather tubular. At the top it is dark blue or almost black.
The fruits are about 15 mm long capsules that stand upright on the plant, are club-shaped and are initially dark blue, later blackish in color.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.
Occurrence
The species is widespread in arctic and subarctic Europe and extends south in Norway to the 62nd parallel . In addition, it occurs in Siberia and North America (Alaska, Canada, Rocky Mountains from Montana to Utah ). It grows on stony soils and loves lime.
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea, Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae) . Cambridge University Press, 1976, reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-521-08717-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campanula uniflora at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis