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Cyananthus
Cyananthus is a genus of flowering plants that includes 21 species of annual or mostly perennial herbs from high mountains of Central and East Asia. They are little Himalayan plants no higher than 4 in. The name comes from the Greek word for blue flowers. Leaves are usually small and simple, sometimes narrowing to base, tooth-lobed at summit. In August to September, the plants bear showy of bright purplish-blue, yellow or white, funnel to bell-shaped, 5-lobed flowers 1 inch in diameter with stamens free from the corolla and hairy throat. The flowers are borne singly on stalks. They always lose the aerial parts during the coldest months, and as spring begins, stems and leaves quickly start to reproduce.
21 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Cyananthus lobatus
speciesCyananthus lobatus
Cyananthus incanus
speciesCyananthus incanus
Cyananthus hookeri
speciesCyananthus hookeri
Cyananthus macrocalyx
speciesCyananthus macrocalyx
Cyananthus microphyllus
speciesCyananthus microphyllus
Cyananthus inflatus
speciesCyananthus inflatus
Cyananthus delavayi
speciesCyananthus delavayi
Cyananthus formosus
speciesCyananthus formosus
Cyananthus longiflorus
speciesCyananthus longiflorus
Cyananthus fasciculatus
speciesCyananthus fasciculatus
Cyananthus lichiangensis
speciesCyananthus lichiangensis
Cyananthus cordifolius
speciesCyananthus cordifolius
Cyananthus pedunculatus
speciesCyananthus pedunculatus
Cyananthus himalaicus
speciesCyananthus himalaicus
Cyananthus sherriffii
speciesCyananthus sherriffii
Cyananthus wardii
speciesCyananthus wardii
Cyananthus sericeus
speciesCyananthus sericeus
Cyananthus ligulosus
speciesCyananthus ligulosus
Cyananthus integer
speciesCyananthus integer
Cyananthus hayanus
speciesCyananthus hayanus
Cyananthus flavus
speciesCyananthus flavus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 548811.