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Campanula oreadum

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Authors: Boiss.   Heldr.  

Botanical Description

Tufted and softly grey hairy, with slender fragile stems to 10cm long. Basal leaves oblong-spathulate, erect to spreading, in rosettes. Flowers 2-3.5cm long, bell-shaped with rounded spreading lobes, blue, solitary or in loose clusters of two to five. Eastern Greece (Olimbos), among mountain rocks and in crevices. Grows well in a sunny trough.