Phyteuma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to Europe and Morocco.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesLammers, T.G. (2007). World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae: 1-675. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Altervista Flora Italiana, genere Phyteuma
The common name is rampion, a name shared with the related plant Campanula rapunculus. Rampion features prominently in some versions of the fairy tale Rapunzel. In the version collected by the Brothers Grimm, it is said that "rapunzel" is the name given to a local variety of rampion.
The species are herbaceous perennial plants, growing to 5–90 cm tall. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, and vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower leaves higher up; the leaf margin is serrated. The flowers are produced in dense erect panicles, each flower with a narrow, deeply five-lobed corolla, 1–2 cm or more long), mostly purple, sometimes pale blue, white or pink. The fruit is a capsule containing numerous small seeds.
Species Phyteuma × adulterinum - Germany, Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. spicatum) Phyteuma betonicifolium - Alps Phyteuma charmelii - Morocco, Spain, France, Italy Phyteuma confusum - Austria, Balkans Phyteuma cordatum - French and Italian Alps Phyteuma gallicum - France Phyteuma globulariifolium - Pyrenees, Alps Phyteuma hedraianthifolium Switzerland, northern Italy Phyteuma hemisphaericum - Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria Phyteuma humile - France, Italy Phyteuma × huteri Murr - Austrian Alps (P. betonicifolium × P. ovatum) Phyteuma michelii - France, Italy Phyteuma nigrum - Black rampion - France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria Phyteuma × obornyanum - Austrian Alps (P. confusum × P. globulariifolium) Phyteuma orbiculare - Round-headed rampion - most of Europe except Ireland, Scandinavia, Greece, Bulgaria Phyteuma × orbiculariforme - Czech Republic (P. nigrum × P. orbiculare) Phyteuma ovatum - Pyrenees, Alps Phyteuma persicifolium - Slovenia, Austria, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia Phyteuma × pyrenaeum Sennen - French Pyrenees (P. ovatum × P. spicatum) Phyteuma rupicola - French Pyrenees Phyteuma scheuchzeri - Alps; naturalised in Great Britain Phyteuma scorzonerifolium Vill. - Alps Phyteuma serratum Viv. - Corsica Phyteuma sieberi - Alps Phyteuma spicatum - Spiked rampion - most of Europe Phyteuma tetramerum - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine Phyteuma vagneri - Carpathians of Romania and Ukraine Phyteuma zahlbruckneri
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