Platycodon grandiflorus (Jacq.) A. DC., Baloon Flower or Chinese Bellflower, an impressive wild flower ranging in East Asia westwards to E Transbaikalia

A steppefied meadow with sparse pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) on a southern slope of the Polovinnaya Pad' valley few kilometres of the Argun' River left bank 13 km S of the village Uryupino, Gazimurskozavodskoi District, E Chita Province, E Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia. 29th July 1997. O. Kosterin.