BELLFLOWER FAMILY
Legousia speculum-veneris (LARGE VENUS'S LOOKING GLASS)
(Eşek baldıran) Campanulaceae
Annual herbs. Stems erect to ascending, branched, up to 30 cm. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Flowers solitary or numerous, forming a panicle. Calyx lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla rotate, violet, rarerly white or lilac. Fruit a cylindrical capsule, dehisching by 3 valves near apex. Seeds broadly ellipsoid. Fl.April-June.
Pinus sylvestris forest, fields, open places, s.l.
Türkiye, N.Africa, C.&S.Europe, Cyprus, W.Syria, N.Iraq, Caucasia.
