Clustered Bellflower

(Campanula glomerata)

 

Color drawing: C. A. M. Lindman (1901-1905), Bilder ur Nordens Flora.

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata)

Alien: Native of Europe.

Identification: Five petals, mostly fused into a bell structure with free petal lobes pointed, and curling backward. Flower color blue-violet. Flowers nearly stalkless, upright, and arranged in a terminal cluster. Other flowers located futher down the stem in the upper leaf axils. Stem hairy. Upper leaves hairy, wide at the base, tapering toward the apex, and with the base clasping the stem. Lower leaves elongate, heart-shaped, with long leaf petioles. Plant 1 to 2 feet in height.

Distribution: Southern Canada, southward to Minnesota, Illinois, and North Dakota in the west and Pennsylvania in the east.

Habitat: Clustered Bellflower is a garden escape found in fields and along roadsides.

Flowering period: June to July.

Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata)

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The combation of the terminal cluster of bell-shaped, violet-blue flowers, the clasping upper leaves, and the petioled lower leaves will easily identify this species.

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