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A handsome species with beautiful large purple-blue flowers.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Description
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Perennial. Stems erect, up to 1 m tall, glabrous, striated. Leaves large, up to 12 x 7 cm, broadly lanceolate to oval or ovate, upper sessile, lower petiolate, lower surface hirsute on the veins, upper almost glabrous; margin dentate to serrate. Flowers large, usually 1, sometimes more, in the axils of upper leaves forming a raceme. Calyx teeth linear, c. 1 cm long, margin ciliate. Corolla campanulate, 2 to 4 cm, dark purple-blue, lobes acute. Filaments broad at the base, hairy. Style included with 3 linear stigmas. Capsule c. 1 cm long, dehiscing at the base.
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Distribution
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Europe, W. Asia, Siberia, Himalaya (Kashmir to Nepal).
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Distribution
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Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, W. Himalayas in India and Pakistan.
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