Campanula cervicaria

Bristly Bellflower

The Bristly Bellflower (Campanula cervicaria ) is a plant from the family of the Bellflower Family ( Campanulaceae ).

Features

The Bristly Bellflower is a biennial to perennial plant, reaching heights of growth from 40 to 80 cm. It forms thick-fleshed, deep roots. The spreading of basal leaves as the leaves on the lower stem area have a lanceolate leaf shape, they are in the middle at the widest and narrowing in the winged petiole. The leaves are hairy like the stem stiff bristly. The upper stem leaves are ovate-lanceolate and sessile.

The inflorescence consists of a little head -like, terminal flower clusters and between levels further, but few-flowered partial inflorescences. The flowers are pale blue, 12-20 mm long and have a funnel - to bell shape. You are sitting outside and hairy. The sepals are less than half as long as the corolla tube, narrowly ovate, obtuse and hairy. The bays between the calyx lobes are also dull and have no appendages. The stylus projects usually emerge from the crown. Bloom time is June and July, the pollination is mainly by bees ( Melittophilie ). The fruit is a capsule vielsamige, stands upright, is hairy and opens near the lower end with three pores.

Dissemination and locations

The area of ​​the bristly bellflower ranges from central Europe to western Siberia. In Germany it is considered threatened with extinction. In Austria it is rare, listed as endangered and is found only in Burgenland, Lower Austria, Styria and Carinthia. In Switzerland, it occurs almost exclusively in the Central Plateau and applies nationwide as endangered.

The Bristly Bellflower grows on damp meadows, on the seams and in open woods. It grows mainly on changing fresh, rather calcareous soils of hill and montane zone.

Documents

• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6