Family |
Campanulaceae
Campanula retrorsa
Labill.
Campanula retrorsa Labill.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. CXCIII nº 1; 1983)
Life-form & habit: Soft-textured, green plant of highly variable height, 20–100 cm; stem strongly angular, very scabrous, as are leaf margins; decumbent or ascending.
Leaves: Lower leaves obovate, slightly crenate, shortly petiolate; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute.
Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers solitary or few along the branches.
Calyx: Lobes lanceolate-acuminate, single-nerved, sometimes with 1–2 small basal teeth; spreading to slightly recurved and much longer than the obconical tube.
Corolla: Broadly funnel-shaped, 2–3 cm in diameter, vivid violet-blue, divided almost to the base.
Fruit: Capsule glabrous, long-obconical, deeply grooved, topped by accrescent calyx lobes.
Phenology: Flowers from April to May.
Habitat & elevation: Grassy ground, hedges, and bushy habitats.
Lebanese distribution: Ct. Saïda, Beirut, Nahr el-Kelb, Tripoli, Antélias, Ras Chekka; Mi. Ghazir, Ghosta–Dlepta, ‘Ainab, ‘Abey, Hammana, Jezzine, Bikfaya, Berkayel, Ras Chekka–Hamate; Sud. Tartous; Mm. Bhamra, ‘Aïn Halakim, Safita, Massiaf.
Syrian distribution: NLatt. Ouadi Qandil, south of Kessab, Kessab–Chanarjou, Karadourane; Sy. Jabal Sema‘ane, Hama, Homs.
Native range: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine