Trachelium

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Trachelium caeruleum


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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


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