Campanula sibirica

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Common name

Siberian Bellflower

Scientific name

Campanula sibirica L.

Conservation status and threats

NOT protected species in Bulgaria.

Description and identification

Campanula sibirica is an herbaceous biennial or perennial plant. Roots thickened, carrot-shaped, sometimes lignified. Stems erect, purplish, cylindrical, 20-70 cm tall, multi-branched; branches upright, slender, white hirsute. Basal and lower cauline leaves 5-8 × 1-3 cm, white hirsute, with long winged petiole; blade oblong or elliptic, sparsely crenate; upper cauline leaves sessile, ± amplexicaul, linear-lanceolate, entire. Flowers pendent in narrow terminal panicles on main stems and branches; pedicels 2-8 mm, longer than linear bracts. Hypanthium glabrous, obconic; calyx lobes linear-subulate, 3-4 mm, nearly 1 mm wide at base, margin setose; reflexed appendices ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, slightly shorter than hypanthium, margin setose. Corolla pale blue-purple, sometimes nearly white, narrowly campanulate, 9-12 mm, inside sparsely pubescent; lobes ovate-deltoid, 1/3-1/2 as long as tube. Style equal to or slightly shorter than corolla; stigma 3-fid. Capsule obconic, ca. 4 × 3 mm. Seeds elliptic, ca. 1 mm. Flowering June-August¹.