Evia Bellflower is a velvety biennial herb with
stems up to a foot tall, nearly erect. Basal leaves are up to 8 cm, in
a rosette, heart-shaped to ovate-oblong, blunt, toothed, stalked,
finely velvet-hairy. Upper leaves are elliptic-oblong, toothed, nearly
stalkless. Flowers are large, inflated, erect, in loose terminal
clusters or panicles. Sepals are triangular, appendages ovate,
net-veined. Flowers are broadly bell-shaped, lavender blue or white.
Evia Bellflower is endemic to Evia island, Greece, cultivated
worldwide.
Flowering: June-July.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Leh, Ladakh.
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