紫斑风铃草 zi ban feng ling cao

Campanula nobilis Lindley.

Plants perennial, setose throughout or rarely subglabrous. Rhizomes long, horizontal. Stems erect, robust, 20-100 cm tall, usually branched above. Basal leaves long petiolate; blade cordate or ovate; cauline leaves ovate, lanceolate, or triangular, base rounded or truncate, margin irregularly dentate, apex acute or acuminate; lower leaves winged-petiolate, upper ones sessile. Flowers terminal on top of main stems and branches, pendent. Calyx lobes narrowly triangular; reflexed appendages elliptic, triangular, ovate, or lanceolate. Corolla white, yellow, or pink, commonly purple- or red punctate, tubular-campanulate, 3-6.5 cm. Capsule broadly campanulate or obconic. Seeds gray-brown, oblong or elliptic, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm, smooth. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 34.

Forests, thickets, meadows; below 2300 m. E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, W Henan, W Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, NE Sichuan [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East, Siberia); widely cultivated].