Wahlenbergia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Wahlenbergia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Wahlenbergia (named after Georg Wahlenberg, 1780-1851, Swedish botanist). Including Edraianthus (Hedraeanthus). Campanulaceae. Annual or perennial herbs, base of the stems sometimes woody, used as greenhouse and border plants, mostly the latter. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite: infl. usually irregularly centrifugal; peduncles terminal, lateral or axillary, solitary or rarely paniculate: fls. usually blue and nodding; calyx-tube adnate, hemispherical, turbinate or obconical-oblong, limb 5-parted, very rarely 3-4- merous; corolla campanulate, funnel-shaped, tubular or rather rotate, 5-cleft, very rarely 3-4-cleft; ovary inferior or semi-superior, 2-5-celled: caps. erect, loculicidally 5-valved.—About 110 species, Eu., Medit. region, S. Afr., and Trop. Amer. This treatment includes Edraianthus, which is often kept as a distinct genus. The species are used mostly as rock-garden plants, and receive the treatment given campanulas. W. gentianoides, Hort., is offered in the trade as a rock-plant growing a foot high, with erect wiry sts. and bright blue fls.—W. grandiflora, Schrad., is Platycodon grandiflorum. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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