flowers

Round-headed Rampion Round-headed Rampion
Phyteuma tenerum
Height up to 50cm

Perennial of dry grassland on calcareous soil. Local and restricted to sites on chalk downs in S England. Leaves oval at base but narrow and unstalked on stem. Blue-violet flowers borne in rounded, untidy heads, 10­25mm across, June­August.

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