Oviedo bellflower
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The Oviedo bellflower ( Campanula arvatica ) is a plant type from the genus of bellflowers ( Campanula ) in the family of bell flower plants (Campanulaceae).
description
The Oviedo bellflower is a cushion-forming perennial plant that can be branched or hairy. It forms a thick, irregular rhizome with remnants of dead leaves and petioles. The stems are up to 20 cm high. The leaves are up to 8 mm long, ovate, toothed and stalked. The upper stem leaves are somewhat smaller, sessile or almost sessile.
The crown is 12 to 25 mm long, wheel-shaped or broadly funnel-shaped, pale blue or purple.
The fruits are about 4 mm long capsules that are vortex-shaped and open through pores on the sides.
Occurrence and locations
The species is common in northwestern Spain . It grows there in the mountains on calcareous soils.
Systematics
One can distinguish between two subspecies:
- Campanula arvatica subsp. adsurgens (Leresche & Levier) Damboldt (Syn .: Campanula adsurgens Leresche & Levier ): It occurs in Spain in the southwestern province of León .
- Campanula arvatica subsp. arvatica : It occurs in the Cordillera Cantabrica .
literature
- Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al. (Ed.): Flora Europaea, Volume 4: Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae) . Cambridge University Press, 1976, reprinted 1994, ISBN 978-0-52108717-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Campanula - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on February 7, 2018.
