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Bartsia alpina
Also called Alpine Bartsia, Velvet Bells
Velvetbells is a small hemiparasitic perennial from cold mountain and Arctic habitats that takes some nutrients from the roots of neighbouring plants. It is rarely grown in gardens and is best suited to cool, moist conditions.
Bartsia alpina is a species of perennial flowering plant, known by the common name alpine bartsia or velvetbells. It is found in the mountainous regions of Europe, and also occurs in Iceland, Greenland and north-eastern Canada.
Bartsia alpina has a European Arctic-montane distribution, and is also known from North America. It occurs in the mountainous regions of northern Russia, Finland, Norway and Sweden, and in the Alps and other mountains in Central Europe, as far south as the Pyrenees and south-west Bulgaria; it also occurs in Iceland, Greenland and north-eastern Canada.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bartsia alpina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
