Peach-leaved bellflower
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The peach-leaved bellflower ( Campanula persicifolia ) belongs to the genus of bluebells .
description
The herbaceous perennial plant reaches heights of 30 to 80 cm. The plant is (almost) bare. The foliage leaves are coarse, dark green on top, basal leaves and lower stem leaves mostly obscure-lanceolate, narrowed into the stalk. The middle and upper stem leaves are linear-lanceolate to linear and sessile.
The inflorescence is a raceme . The grape is usually three to eight flowers (rarely the inflorescence is branched and then up to 15 flowers). The crown is 2.5 to 5 cm long, broadly bell-shaped and is (purple) blue or white. The calyx lobes are narrow triangular and about 2 to 3 mm wide at the base.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
ecology
The species loves warmth. Flowering time is from June to August.
The ripe fruit capsules stand upright and have pores. They spread their seeds as animal shakers , as the persistent, protruding sepals "hook".
Occurrence
The species occurs in fresh to dry deciduous forests, on forest fringes, in wild valleys, fresh meadows, grasslands of the colline to submontane altitude. It occurs in societies of the order Quercetalia pubescentis and Fagetalia, also in those of the Geranion sanguinei, Berberidion, Erico-Pinion or Mesobromion associations. In Austria it is frequent to scattered in all federal states; it is variable - in Carinthia sometimes densely hairy whitish ( Campanula persicifolia var. eriocarpa ). In Germany it occurs scattered, in the northwest it is completely absent.
Systematics
One can distinguish the following subspecies:
- Campanula persicifolia subsp. persicifolia : It occurs from Europe to western Siberia and from Turkey to the Caucasus.
- Campanula persicifolia subsp. sessiliflora (Velen.) Fed. ex Greuter & Burdet : It occurs from Slovenia to Macedonia.
- Campanula persicifolia subsp. subpyrenaica (Timb.-Lagr.) Fed. : It occurs in the Pyrenees.
use
The species is available as an ornamental plant in garden shops in different flower colors. It is a wild garden plant that spreads freely and also feral from culture.
Common names
For the peach-leaved bellflower, there are or existed, in some cases only regionally, also the other German-language trivial names : egg shell ( Switzerland ), blue thimble ( Eifel near elms ), Klockebeam ( Transylvania ), large bells ( Silesia ), pigeon bells (Silesia), Tschokoladibechercher (Transylvania), Waldcymbeln (Silesia), Waldglöckel and Waldrapunzel.
literature
- Wolfgang Adler, Karl Oswald, Raimund Fischer: Excursion flora of Austria. Ed .: Manfred A. Fischer . Ulmer, Stuttgart / Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-8001-3461-6 .
- Schmeil-Fitschen : Flora of Germany and neighboring countries. 89th edition, Heidelberg 1993, ISBN 3-494-01210-5
- Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of plants in Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait. 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp. 895 .
- ↑ a b c d Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Campanula - data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on April 6, 2016.
- ^ Georg August Pritzel , Carl Jessen : The German folk names of plants. New contribution to the German linguistic treasure. Philipp Cohen, Hannover 1882, page 75. ( online ).
Web links
- Campanula persicifolia. In: FloraWeb.de.
- Peach-leaved bellflower . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.
- Profile and distribution map for Bavaria . In: Botanical Information Hub of Bavaria .
- Campanula persicifolia L. In: Info Flora , the national data and information center for Swiss flora . Retrieved April 6, 2016.
- Area map: The distribution in the northern hemisphere
- Thomas Meyer: Bellflower data sheet with identification key and photos at Flora-de: Flora von Deutschland (old name of the website: Flowers in Swabia )
- photos
