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Spiked Rampion

Phyteuma spicatum

Spiked Rampion
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Campanulaceae (Campanul family)
Grows as
Perennial
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Phyteuma spicatum, the spiked rampion, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is common across much of Europe. Its common names include raiponce en épi (French), Ährige Teufelskralle (German), Ährige Rapunzel (Swiss German), and Raponzolo giallo (Italian).

Found in diverse types of forest, especially broadleaf beech forests, but also coniferous forests, as well as prairies, along forest roads, in logging clearings.

Where it grows

Global: GBIF. A collation of numerous data sources which include both historical data and occurrences outside natural range.

Other Phyteuma plants

Betony Leaved Rampion · Black Rampion · Round Headed Rampion · Phyteuma ovatum · Oxford Rampion · Horned Rampion · Rampions

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phyteuma spicatum 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.

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