Long-Style Bellflower is a plant up to 1 m tall.
Roots are elongated, fusiform. Stem is hairless to slightly hairy.
Leaves are lanceshaped to ovate, hairless to velvety, margin toothed to
slightly sawtoothed, lower leaves stalked, upper stalkless or nearly
so. Flowers are stalked bell-shaped, blue, about 1 cm long, stalked.
Sepals are threadlike to linear, each 5 mm long. Petals are linear to
lanceolate, united at the base, 5-6 mm long. Filaments are short,
velvety, anthers oblong, surrounding the style. Style with 2 stigmas.
Fruit is a globose capsule with persistent sepals. Seed is 1.5 mm
long, dark brown, oblong, smooth. Long-Style Bellflower is found in
Afghanistan and NW Himalayas, at altitudes of 1500-2500 m.
Flowering: May-August.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Kashmir.
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