CAMPANULA CREUTZBURGII

Family and Genus:- See- CAMPANULACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Campanula drabifolia subsp. creutzburgii.

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.

Creutzburgii (L) After Nikolaus Creutzburg. German geographer.

General description:- Annual with with stiff bristly hairs or with sharp stiff hairs

lying close to the surface (hispid-strigose).

Stems:-

1) Sparingly branched from the base, with procumbent branches.

Leaves:-

1) Dentate, oblong,

a) basal, petiolate.

b) cauline, small, sessile, more deeply dentate.

Flowers:-

1) With shortly pedicellate.

2) Bracts, entire or with one pair of indistinct basal teeth.

3) Calyx, hispid; sinus between the calyx-teeth acute; stellate and spreading,

increasing in length or thickness with age in fruit.

4) Corolla, 7-10 mm, narrowly campanulate, blue.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, pendent.

Key features:-

1) Corolla, c. 7-10 mm.

2) Calyx, without appendages between the teeth. Stellate-patent and accrescent in

fruit.

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Habitat:- Rock ledges, rocky and stony places in dry open shrubby vegetation

generally on limestone near the coast. 0-200 m.

Distribution:- Endemic to Crete, limited distribution around coastal areas. Rare

Flowering time:- Mar-May.

Photos by:- Marinos Gogolos

Status:-

Conservation status (for threatened species): Rare (R) according to IUCN 1997.

Protection status (for threatened species): Greek Presidential Decree 67/1981.