CAMPANULA CREUTZBURGII

Family:- CAMPANULACEAE

Common Names:- None

Synonyms:- Campanula drabifolia subsp. creutzburgii.

Meaning:- Campanula (L) Bell-like.

Creutzburgii (L) After Nikolaus Creutzburg. German geographer.

General description:- Annual with with stiff bristly hairs or with sharp stiff hairs

lying close to the surface (hispid-strigose).

Stems:-

a) sparingly branched from the base.

b) with procumbent branches.

Leaves:-

1) Lamina:

a) dentate, oblong.

b) basal shortly stalked (petiolate).

c) cauline small, hairless (sessile), more deeply dentate.

Flowers:-

a) with short stems (pedicellate).

1) Bracts:

a) entire or with one pair of indistinct basal teeth.

2) Calyx:

a) hispid; sinus between the calyx-teeth acute; star-shaped and spreading and

increasing in length or thickness with age in fruit.

3) Corolla:

a) 7-10 mm.

b) narrowly tubular-bell-shaped (campanulate).

c) blue.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule:

a) pendent.

Key features:-

1) Corolla c. 7-10 mm.

2) Calyx without appendages between the teeth. Stellate-patent and accrescent in

fruit.

Habitat:- Rock ledges, rocky and stony places in dry open shrubby vegetation

generally on limestone near the coast. 0-200 m.

Distribution:- Endemic to Crete, limited distribution around coastal areas. Rare

Flowering time:- Mar-May.

Photos by:- Marinos Gogolos

Status:-

Conservation status (for threatened species): Rare (R) according to IUCN 1997.

Protection status (for threatened species): Greek Presidential Decree 67/1981.