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Cyananthus formosus is a species of perennial flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is native to grassy slopes and forests of northwest Yunnan in China. In Mandarin the species is known as 美丽蓝钟花 (mei li lan zhong hua). Originally described by Ludwig Diels in 1912 in the Notes of the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, the species is a small, blue-flowered plant suitable for Alpine gardens.
Cyananthus formosus is found in China in southwest Sichuan and northwest Yunnan near the localities of Muli, Heqing, Lijiang, and Zhongdian. Its habitat is on grassy slopes, in forest glades, on the edges of forests, and among scree, at elevations of 2,800–4,600 metres (3,100–5,000 yd).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cyananthus formosus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
