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Campanula myrtifolia

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Authors: Heldr.   Boiss.  

Botanical Description

(syn. Trachelium and Tracheliopsis myrtifolia, T. tauricum). Tufted to cushion-forming and woody-based, with many erect stems to 3cm long. Leaves 2-6mm long, elliptic, sessile, strigulose. Flowers narrowly funnel-shaped, to 8mm long including the short erect lobes, lavender-blue, sometimes white, twos to five in corymbs, summer. Turkey, on vertical limestone rock faces at 1070-2100m.

Joint Rock: Joint Rock Awards, Leeds, 19 June 2010