Michauxia campanuloides

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Rough-leaved michauxia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Michauxia
Species:
M. campanuloides
Binomial name
Michauxia campanuloides
Synonyms [2]
  • Mindium rhazisJuss.
  • Mindium spicatumJ.F.Gmel.
  • Michauxia strigosaPers.
  • Mindium campanuloides(L'Hér.) Rech.f. & Schiman-Czeika
  • Michauxia novaJ.F.Gmel. not validly published
  • Campanula lyrifoliaSalisb.
  • Mindium isauricumContandr., Quézel & Pamukç.

Michauxia campanuloides, the rough-leaved michauxia, is an ornamental plant in the Campanulaceae (bellflower) family. It is native to Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine. [2] [3]

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Description

From rosettes of basal lanceolate and lobed leaves arise flowering stems up to 2 m high, branched towards the top carrying many drooping flowers of white, tinged with purple, with 8-10 long narrow reflexed lobes and long-projecting style. Flowers April–July. [4]

Habitat

Stony and rocky places.

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References

  1. Botanical Magazine -VOLUME-7 plate 219, 1793
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Lammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  4. Flowers of Greece and the Aegean, Anthony Huxley and William Taylor, CHATTO & WINDUS, London 1977, ISBN   0 7011 2228 5