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Peach-Leaved Bellflower

Peach-Leaved Bellflower

Campanula persicifolia

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How common: Common

Peach-Leaved Bellflower is a tall, elegant wildflower with large, blue, bell-shaped blooms. It is often seen in woods, forest edges, meadows and along roadsides, and is also grown in gardens. It is native in parts of central and eastern Europe.

Did you know?

  • A long-time garden favorite: grown in Nordic gardens since the 1500s and also used as a cut flower.
  • Each bell works first as a “male” flower and later as a “female” one.

About the species

Identification

A tall, upright plant 30–100 cm. Stem firm, smooth and usually unbranched. Leaves long and narrow; those near the base usually wither by flowering. Lower stem leaves short-stalked, upper ones stalkless, edges mostly smooth with very shallow teeth. Flowers 2–10, set singly along the upper stem; large, wide bells 3–5 cm, blue (sometimes white). Seed pod stands upright and opens by tiny holes near the tip. Larger and wider-belled than harebell; unlike clustered bellflower, the flowers are not in tight heads. Flowers in Finland in July–August.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

herb-rich forest

Flowering

Jul–Aug

About the habitat

Grows in moist to fairly fertile woods, forest edges, meadows, road verges and rocky woodland; also escapes from plantings. Common in southern Finland; scarcer in central Finland and northward along the Bothnian coast to the head of the Bay of Bothnia.

Sources

Photo: Robert Flogaus-Faust, CC BY 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campanula persicifolia RF.jpg

Text: Pinkka: Puutarhakasvitiede 1 - Perennat ja ryhmäkasvit, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39704

Text: Pinkka: BIO-515 Etelä-Suomen putkilokasvit - Cakile-Carex, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39704

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

See also