Entire-Leaf Trailing Bellflower is creeping herb with
beautiful blue flowers, found in the high reaches of Western Himalaya.
Stems are many or few from the root, simple, hairy or finally nearly
hairless, 10-30 cm. Flowers are nearly stalkless, sepal-cup
black-hairy. unaltered in fruit. Sepal-cup is 1.2-1.8 cm, ovoid, lobed
somewhat pointedly up to 1/3 of its length. Flowers are 2.5 x 1.2 cm,
tubular-funnel-shaped; petals ovate, somewhat spreading, hairy at least
in the throat inside. Leaves are nearly stalkless, entire or rounded
toothed-toothed broadly or narrowly oblong shortly closely rough-hairy
on both surfaces. Leaves are 2.5 cm by 6 mm, rounded toothed-toothed ;
often much smaller, narrower, nearly entire. Capsule is 1.2 cm,
ovoid-conic, seeds are 1.5 mm, narrowly oblong-ellipsoid. Entire-Leaf
Trailing Bellflower is found Western Himalaya, at altitudes of 3600 m.
Identification credit: Sunit Singh
Photographed at Sahastra Tal, Tehri, Uttarakhand.
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