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''Legousia speculum-veneris'', the looking glass or large Venus's-looking-glass, is an annual
ornamental plant Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that ...
in the family
Campanulaceae The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. Among them are several familiar garden plants belo ...
(bellflowers). It blooms from June to August and is native to the
Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
region.


Synonyms

* ''Campanula speculum-veneris'' * ''Legousia arvensis'' * ''Prismatocarpus speculum-veneris'' * ''Campanula pulchella'' * ''Legousia durandei'' * ''Campanula arvensis'' * ''Prismatocarpus hirtus'' * ''Campanula hirta'' * ''Campanula cordata'' * ''Specularia speculum'' For syn. ''Specularia speculum'' see for instance: . See also: . Also: . Also: etc. * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' * ''Legousia speculum'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''calycina'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''libanotica'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''pubescens'' * ''Prismatocarpus cordatus'' * ''Specularia cordata'' * ''Specularia vulgaris'' * ''Prismatocarpus speculum-veneris'' var. ''hirtus'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''stricta'' * ''Specularia arvensis'' * ''Campanula trigona'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''racemosa'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''cordata'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''hirta'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' subsp. ''hirta'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' f. ''plena'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' f. ''procumbens'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' var. ''procumbens'' * ''Specularia speculum-veneris'' subvar. ''pubescens'' * ''Specularia polypiflora'' * ''Specularia hirta'' * ''Legousia speculum-veneris'' f. ''calycina'' * ''Legousia speculum-veneris'' f. ''polypiflora'' * ''Legousia speculum-veneris'' f. ''stricta'' * ''Githopsis latifolia''


References

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Dominique Villars Dominique Villars or Villar (born 14 November 1745 in Le Villard, part of the commune of Le Noyer, Hautes-Alpes, and died on 26 June 1814 in Strasbourg) was an 18th-century French botanist. His main work is ''Histoire des plantes du Dauphiné'' ...
, ''Histoire des Plantes de Dauphiné'' 2: 338 (1786). * * *


External links


USDA Plants Profile: ''Legousia speculum-veneris''
Campanuloideae Flora of Europe Flora of Serbia Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Campanulaceae-stub