Vinca minor

Rozet çiçeği

Evergreen subshrub with flowering shoots to 15 cm, trailing shoots to 60 cm, making densely interwoven masses. Leaves evergreen, blade mostly elliptic or lanceolate , 1·5-4·5 x 0·5-2·5 cm, base usually cuneate, sometimes rounded, apex acute or obtuse, margin smooth and  glabrous, with veins spreading from midrib at 40-60⁰; petiole 2-10 mm. Calyx 3-4 mm, glabrous. Corolla usually blue-violet, sometimes white or reddish-purple; tube 9-11 mm, lobes 10-15 mm. Follicles 1·5-2 cm; seeds 6-9 mm. Fl. 4. Alt. c. 1200 m.

S., W. & C. Europe, Balkans, C. & S. Russia, Caucasus.