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Creeping Bellflower

Creeping Bellflower

Campanula rapunculoides

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How common: Common

Alien species

Creeping bellflower is a tall, long‑lived plant with blue‑purple, bell‑shaped flowers that hang along one side of the stem. Once planted as a garden flower, it often escapes and forms patches with its creeping underground stems. You can spot it beside roads, at field edges, in parks and on the edges of woods.

Did you know?

  • An old garden plant that often spreads outside beds by creeping roots.
  • Its bells usually hang on one side of the stem and nod downward.

About the species

Identification

Upright perennial 20–90 cm tall, often forming patches from creeping underground stems. Stem usually unbranched. Lower leaves on long stalks, narrow heart‑shaped to oval with shallow, blunt teeth; higher leaves are narrower and stalkless. Flowers 2–3 cm, blue‑violet bells that hang on short stalks in a long, one‑sided cluster along the upper stem. The five narrow green points behind each bell bend strongly backward. Later small hanging capsules appear. One‑sided, nodding flowers help tell it from similar bellflowers. Flowers in Finland in late summer (July–September).

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

yards and roadsides

Flowering

Jul–Sep

About the habitat

Grows in rich to moderately rich soils in gardens, parks, roadsides, field margins, forest edges and other disturbed places; native to Europe. Found in southern and central Finland.

Sources

Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creeping Bellflower, Ottawa.jpg

Text: Pinkka: A Pohjolan kasveja - Carex, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39709

Text: Pinkka (Luomus), CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39709

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuohenkello

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