风铃草亚属 feng ling cao ya shu

Basal leaves absent or wilted at anthesis; cauline leaves evenly distributed on stems, upper ones sessile or not, often relatively broad. Flowers numerous, in cymes aggregated into raceme-, spike-, or headlike inflorescences. Capsule poricidal toward base.

About 275 species: throughout the Arctic and N temperate regions of the Old World, extending south into Macronesia, tropical E Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, Indochina, and east into the Aleutian Islands; 15 species (seven endemic) in China.