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Tufted in habit with erect stems about 5cm in height. Basal leaves greyish, ovate to obovate, remotely serrate, almost stalkless. Stem leaves narrower, crenate-serrate. Flowers erect, broadly funnel-shaped with rounded lobes, mid-blue. South-eastern Alps among limestone rocks.
Not an easy species and best in a limestone scree, or crevice, or the alpine house. When growing really well it spreads by slender rhizomes. A white-flowered plant is known and a fully hairy one known as C.r. var. hirsuta.
