Synonyms
Campanula biserrata K. Koch; Campanula celtidifolia Boiss. and A. Huet; Campanula lactiflora var. glabra Trautv.; Campanula lactiflora var. pilosa Trauvt.; Gadellia lactiflora (M. Bieb.) Shulkina
Local Names
Georgia: 
– k’enk’esha, 
– dondolo (Ach.), 
– k’ank’esha (Megrelian, Svanetian), 
– k’irza (Khevsurian), 
– k’its (Svanetian), 
– muk’udo (Mthiuletian), 
– muq’udo (Rachian), 
– t’k’its (Svnanetian), 
– dzots’ia (Lechkhumian), 
– ch’uria (Megrelian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Milky flowered bellflower.
Botany and Ecology
Perennial, pubescent or subglabrous plant. Stems to 150 cm or taller, straight, thick, leafy. Root leaves short petiolated, ovate or ovate-oblong, apex acute; stem leaves sessile, ovate-oblong or oblong; margin of all leaves biserrate, teeth glandular. Inflorescence a panicle. Flowers 2.5–3 cm long; calyx teeth ovate-lanceolate, small-toothed, glandular along margin, nearly half as long as corolla, tube obconical, glabrous or covered with white bristly hairs;...
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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Campanula lactiflora M. Bieb. Campanulaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_33
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