Trachelium (plant)

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
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 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]