Trachelium

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Read about Trachelium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Trachelium (Greek, trachelos, neck; from its supposed efficacy in diseases of the throat). Campanulaceae. Throatwort. Perennial herbs or subshrubs, glabrous or hispid, hardy but not much grown: sts. sometimes tall and rather simple, with the fls. numerous, in a much-branched corymbose panicle, sometimes short, many-stemmed or cespitosely much branched, with the fls. rather umbellate at the ends of the branches: fls. blue; calyx-tube adnate, obovoid or sub-globose, angulate; limb 5-parted, lobes narrow; corolla narrowly tubular, top shortly 5-lobed; ovary inferior, 3- rarely 2-celled, many-ovuled: caps. subglobose, angulate, membranaceous; seeds small.—About 6 or 7 species, Medit. region. Prop. by seeds or cuttings. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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Species

• Trachelium caeruleum

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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