''Phyteuma'' is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...

s in the family

Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants bel ...

, native to

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and

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

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/ref> The common name is rampion, a name shared with the related plant ''

Campanula rapunculus ''Campanula rapunculus'', common name rampion bellflower, rampion, rover bellflower, or rapunzel, is a species of Campanula, bellflower (''Campanula'') in the family Campanulaceae. This species was once widely grown in Europe for its leaves, wh ...

''. Rampion features prominently in some versions of the fairy tale

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. In the version collected by the

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, it is said that "rapunzel" is the name given to a local variety of rampion. The species are

herbaceous Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of ...

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plants, growing to 5–90 cm tall. The

leaves A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, ...

are alternate, petiolate, and vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower leaves higher up; the leaf margin is serrated. The flowers are produced in dense erect

panicle In botany, a panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a p ...

s, each flower with a narrow, deeply five-lobed corolla, 1–2 cm or more long), mostly purple, sometimes pale blue, white or pink. The

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is a capsule containing numerous small

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Species

*'' Phyteuma × adulterinum'' - Germany, Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. spicatum) *'' Phyteuma betonicifolium'' - Alps *'' Phyteuma charmelii'' - Morocco, Spain, France, Italy *'' Phyteuma confusum'' - Austria, Balkans *'' Phyteuma cordatum'' - French and Italian Alps *'' Phyteuma gallicum'' - France *'' Phyteuma globulariifolium'' - Pyrenees, Alps *'' Phyteuma hedraianthifolium '' Switzerland, northern Italy *'' Phyteuma hemisphaericum'' - Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria *'' Phyteuma humile'' - France, Italy *'' Phyteuma × huteri'' Murr - Austrian Alps (P. betonicifolium × P. ovatum) *'' Phyteuma michelii'' - France, Italy *'' Phyteuma nigrum'' - Black rampion - France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria *''

Phyteuma × obornyanum ''Phyteuma'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to Europe and Morocco. The common name is rampion, a name shared with the related plant ''Campanula rapunculus''. Rampion features prominently in some versions of t ...

'' - Austrian Alps (P. confusum × P. globulariifolium) *'' Phyteuma orbiculare'' - Round-headed rampion - most of Europe except Ireland, Scandinavia, Greece, Bulgaria *'' Phyteuma × orbiculariforme'' - Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. orbiculare) *'' Phyteuma ovatum'' - Pyrenees, Alps *'' Phyteuma persicifolium'' - Slovenia, Austria, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia *'' Phyteuma × pyrenaeum'' Sennen - French Pyrenees (P. ovatum × P. spicatum) *'' Phyteuma rupicola'' - French Pyrenees *'' Phyteuma scheuchzeri'' - Alps; naturalised in Great Britain *'' Phyteuma scorzonerifolium'' Vill. - Alps *'' Phyteuma serratum'' Viv. - Corsica *'' Phyteuma sieberi'' - Alps *'' Phyteuma spicatum'' - Spiked rampion - most of Europe *'' Phyteuma tetramerum'' - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine *'' Phyteuma vagneri'' - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine *'' Phyteuma zahlbruckneri''

References

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