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Creeping Bellflower

Campanula rapunculoides L.

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Field Notes

Description:

reaches on average 30 - 80 cm of height, with a maximum of 120 cm. The stem is simple, erect and lightly pubescent and the leaves are usually shortly hairy. The basal leaves are triangular, narrow, with a heart-shaped or rounded base, jagged edges and are up to 12 cm long. The upper stem leaves are sessile, lanceolate and shortly stalked. The inflorescence consists of nodding spikelike racemes with numerous drooping flowers. The flowers are bright blue-violet (rarely white), 2 - 4 cm long, with short petioles standing to one side in the axils of the bracts.

Habitat:

This plant is native to Europe and western Siberia and it has been introduced to North America, where it has become an invasive weed. It grows on grassy places, dry hills, meadows, in deciduous and pine forests, woods, fields and roadsides, along railway lines and hedgerows, preferably in partial shade, in dry to moist sites and on clay soils, relatively rich in nitrogen, at an altitude of 0 - 2 000 m above sea level. It also occurs in cultivated fields as a weed.

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PublishedJuly 1, 2013

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