Campanula liliifolia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 165. 1753; C. alpini Linnaeus.

Roots carrot-shaped, 8-10 × 1-2 cm. Stems 50-150 cm tall, simple or branched, glabrous. Cauline leaves sessile or shortly petiolate; blade lanceolate or ovate, 5-13 × 1-5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, rarely sparsely white hirsute abaxially, margin serrate, apex acute to shortly acuminate; petiole (if present) up to 6 mm. Inflorescence a narrow panicle with branches with up to 7 flowers, or rarely only several flowers forming a pseudoraceme; pedicels slender, up to 2.5 cm. Hypanthium obovoid or obconic, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, 5-7 × 1-1.5 mm, mostly reflexed from anthesis, margin usually with a pair of denticles or rarely entire. Corolla blue or pale blue, campanulate, 1.2-2.2 cm; lobes ovate, ca. 1/2 as long as tube, apex acute. Disk shortly tubular, 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous. Style as long as corolla or slightly exserted. Fl. Jul-Aug. 2n = 34, 102.

Forests, scrub. NW Xinjiang (Burqin, Korgas, Toli) [Kazakhstan, Russia (European part); Europe].