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Campanula drabifolia is a small common east Mediterranean annual.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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Campanula erinus is the tiniest bellflower in Israel, it has shy but beautiful flowers.
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Michauxia laevigata is a strange flower of the Caucasus region. It belongs to the Campanulaceae plant family.
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A tiny delicate annual. Calyx slightly bristly. Corolla violet bell-shaped. Fruiting calyx starry, often pending.
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Campanula hierosolymitana (Jerusalem bell flower) is a common shy, but beautiful annual that blooms at the end of spring in rock crevices. It is common in Jerusalem (hence its name) and spontaneous also in the rocks of the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.
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A strigose annual, typical to arid rocks.
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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.
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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.
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I posted some pidctures of this rare plant before, this is another closeup.
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This is an eastern Med. species. It reaches its southern border in the Galilee, northern Israel. But lately got extinct after the few remaining plants were flushed in winter time. It is a short lived perennial, growing successfully in gardens. The plant in the picture was tyaken at the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, where it is grown as part of the shelter garden for endangered plants. The seeds of these plants were collected in the wild before the plant disappeared.
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A nice tiny annual of semideserts.
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Campanula rapunculus is a nice East Mediterranean perennial. In Israel it is rather common, blooming mainly during April. The flowers are upright, unlike the similar European Campanula rapunculoides with pending flowers. This one was found at the edge of typical Mediterranean oak scrub in the Upper Galilee, 1000m.
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Campanula sidoniensis is a least known rare annual, found in Lebanon and N Israel.
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Campanula sidoniensis is a least known rare annual, found in Lebanon and N Israel.
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Campanula stricta is a common perennial growing in dry rocky mountain slopes from Turkey to N Israel. The Labanese variety (var. libanotica) occurs in Lebanon, Syria and Israel. It is a creeping to ascending plant, blooming in June-July. The harsh mountain sun made my picture very flat and almost burnt. I worked on the raw file and corrected it a bit.
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We found lots of these bell flowers above the village of Kazbegi, the grew both in cliffs and in grasse slopes.
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this is a lovely perennial belll-flower, endemic to the area in NE Turkey. Locally it is very common, blooming in June.