Small-leaved Trailing Bellflower (Cyananthus microphyllus)

Small-leaved Trailing Bellflower

Cyananthus microphyllus

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How easy to find

Rare — you will see it only in some places

Flower size

Medium

Family

Campanulaceae (Bellflower family)

Type

Perennial

Height

5–10 cm

Flower colour

Blue

Flowering

August to September

About Small-leaved Trailing Bellflower

Cyanatus microphyllus, the name itself tells a lot of things about the flower, cyananthus = blue flower; microphyllus = small-leaved. It is a low growing perennial plant grows up to 5-10 cm high. It has trailing woody and reddish stems with tiny bright green leaves. Leaves entire are dark green, narrow, elliptic-ovate and at base rounded. Flowers are solitary, blue-violet, funnel-shaped and with narrow-obovate pointed spreading petals and with tuft of white hairs within the flower-tube.

Where to find it

In the middle of the valley

What the name means

Cyananthus: Greek kyanos (dark blue) + anthos (flower); microphyllus means "small-leaved".

Don't confuse it with

Cyananthus lobatus (sno 39) is larger and mat-forming; C. microphyllus is even smaller-leaved.

Questions travellers asked us

Real questions from readers of this page over the years, answered by Devkant Sangwan. Each one shows its date. Roads, rules and arrangements may have changed since, so please ask us about your own dates.

Piet V. · 26 August 2018

Cyanatus = Cyananthus
and for some species the species name has a capital, which is never the case, as only the genus name is capitalized.
But otherwise a very nice collection of pictures and descriptions. Hope you are still expanding it, as there are more species of interest.
best regards
Piet

Devkant Sangwan · 26 March 2019

Thanks! Yes we are still expanding it. Please visit Valley of Flowers Tour Packages for more information.

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