Phyteuma orbiculare
Dry meadows and rocky ground, often on limestone up to 2600m. Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines.
- Stem
- short/medium
- hairy sometimes
- Flowers generally; May-Oct
- dark blue or violet-blue, rarely white
- globular heads
- Leaves
- Narrow
- lance to heart shaped
- Toothed
- stalked
- uppermost narrower, scarcely stalked
- Variants
- P.sieberi (limestone rocks 1600-2600m July-Sept (south east Scandinavia)