Campanula zoysii

Zois bellflower (Campanula zoysii )

The Zois bellflower (Campanula zoysii ) is a plant of the genus bellflower (Campanula ). It is named after Sigmund Zois of gemstone (* 1747 Trieste, Ljubljana † 1819 ).

Features

The Zois bellflower is a perennial plant that reaches stature heights from 2 to 10 inches. The bald, petite plant grows in small lawn or padding. The stem is simple and ascending. The leaves are entire. The basal leaves are stalked and oval to roundish. The stem leaves are almost sessile and lanceolate to linear. The flowers are stalked, mostly nodding and arranged individually or in a few-flowered raceme. The crown is 15 to 20 millimeters long, pale blue - violet and pitcher -shaped. At the bottom is bulbous, upwards it is contracted and grannenartig closed by her folded corolla lobes. The sepals are from grannenartig.

The flowering period extends from July to August.

Occurrence

The Zois Bellflower is endemic in the south-eastern Alps in the Julian Alps, Karavanke and Kamnik Alps. It grows on limestone rocks and rubble in the subalpine to alpine levels at altitudes from 1500 to 2300 meters, but it is sometimes washed down into deeper layers. The species is not common.

Documents

• Xaver Finkenzeller, Jürke Grey: Alpine Flowers ( Steinbach nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10558-1.

• Bluebells
• Alpine flora