Adenophora coelestis Diels

Caudexes sometimes with horizontal branches. Stems 1 or 2 from a rootstock, usually 50-80 cm tall, simple, usually densely leafy in lower half, glabrous to rather densely hispid. Cauline leaves sessile or sometimes lower ones shortly petiolate; blade ovate-rhombic, obovate, ovate, or linear-lanceolate, 2-10 × 0.5-3 cm, abaxially often hispidulous along veins, adaxially sparsely hispidulous, margin irregularly serrate. Flowers in a pseudoraceme, or sometimes inflorescence with branches of 1 to several flowers at top; pedicels short. Hypanthium globose-obovoid or obovoid-obconic, glabrous; calyx lobes narrowly triangular, 8-20 × 1-1.5(-2) mm, margin with 1 to several pairs of denticles. Corolla blue or blue-purple, campanulate, 1.5-4 cm; lobes ovate-deltoid, 6-11 mm, ca. 1/2 as long as tube. Disk (1.2-)2-3(-3.5) mm, glabrous or sometimes hairy. Style shorter than corolla. Fl. Aug-Oct. 2n = 102*.

It is a temperate plant. It grows on the edges of forests between 1,200-4,000 m in China. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan.