Trachelium (plant)

Trachelium
Trachelium caeruleum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Campanulaceae
Subfamily:	Campanuloideae
Genus:	Trachelium Tourn. ex L. (1753)
Species
3, see text

Trachelium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae. It includes two species and one natural hybrid native to Macaronesia and the western and central Mediterranean.^[1]

Trachelium caeruleum is cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Species

• Trachelium caeruleum L. – blue throatwort
• Trachelium × halteratum (Bianca ex Ces., Pass. & Gibelli) Sandwith
• Trachelium lanceolatum Guss.

Formerly placed here

• Campanula asperuloides (Boiss. & Orph.) Harms (as Trachelium asperuloides Boiss. & Orph.)^[2]
• Campanula jacquinii (Sieber) A.DC. (as Trachelium jacquinii (Sieber) Boiss.)^[2]

References

1. "Trachelium Tourn. ex L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
2. Meric, C., et al. (2008). Nuclear DNA content of an endemic taxon from Turkey, Trachelium jacquinii (Sieber) Boiss. subsp. dalgiciorum N. Ozhatay and Dane (Campanulaceae). Biotechnology 7(3), 595-98.