Campanula fastigiata Dufour ex Schult.

Species

Family: CAMPANULACEAE

Genus: Campanula

Spanish common name: Campánula de yesar.

Province distribution: Alacant. Castelló. Lleida. València.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Mediterranean Irano-Turanian

Plants protected by law: País Valencià Catalogue.

IUCN Category: NENot evaluated

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Terophyte.

Habitats: Gypsicolous shrubland. Therophytic calicole fields. Dry annual therophytic grasslands on open soils of gypsum or eroded gypsiferous marls.

Characteristics: Small annual plant, up to 10 cm tall. Stems erect, dichotomously branched (Y-shaped). Basal leaves spatulate, often falling off during flowering; cauline leaves sessile, alternate, entire or toothed. Very small flowers (corolla 1-2 mm), pale blue, arranged at the branch tips in a corymbiform inflorescence (pedicellate flowers arising at different levels but reaching similar heights). Fruit erect, with five prominent ribs, opening through apical pores.