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Thursday 2 April 2015

FFF176 - CAMPANULA

Campanula is one of several genera in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. It takes both its common and its scientific name from its bell-shaped flowers —campanula is Latin for "little bell". The genus includes over 500 species and several subspecies, distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest diversity in the Mediterranean region east to the Caucasus.

Campanula persicifolia (peach-leaved bellflower, shown here) is a herbaceous perennial growing to 1 m. Its flowers are cup-shaped and can be either lilac-blue or white. Its foliage is narrow and glossy with a bright green appearance. It is common in the Alps and other mountain ranges in Europe. It grows at lower altitudes in the north, and higher up further south, passing 1,500 m in Provence. Normally it flowers in June; a dry summer may reduce or inhibit its flowering. Despite this it can flower as late as September in a cold year. The natural habitat of this plant is broad-leaved forests, woodland margins, rocky outcrops in broad-leaved woods, meadows and banks.

The stem is usually unbranched, erect and slightly angular. The basal leaves are short stalked and narrowly spatulate and usually wither before flowering time. The upper leaves are unstalked, lanceolate, almost linear with rounded teeth on the margins. The inflorescence is a few-flowered terminal raceme or there may be a single flower. The calyx is fused with five narrow lobes, eventually spreading. The corolla is five-lobed, 30 to 50 mm long with five violet-blue (or occasionally white) fused petals. The corolla lobes are less long than they are wide. There are five stamens and a pistil formed from three fused carpels. The fruit is a strongly-veined conical capsule.

In cultivation numerous varieties and cultivars have been developed in a range of colours including white, blue, pink and purple. It is a common, well-loved and rewarding garden plant.

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17 comments:

  1. Happy Easter. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  2. Nice photo with the little shadows. Campanula we have too, but they are still not out...
    Happy Easter

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  3. Thank you .... and a lovely Eastertime too :)
    Cheers, Heidrun

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  4. Beautiful purple in this flower.

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  5. What a beautiful photo of the campanulas - a favorit flower.

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  6. I like the first spring-flowers, a very nice photo !
    Happy easter to you and your family
    Greetings from Germany

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  7. Thank you - and Happy Easter to you too!

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  8. Lovely purple! Happy easter to you!

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  9. I love these beautiful flowers !!
    Happy Easter !!

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  10. I like the color of these flowers.
    Happy Easter!

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  11. At least here is a flower I grow! They look great, as always, in your photos.

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  12. Lovely blue campanula, it grows in my garden aswell.
    Happy Easter/ Marika

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  13. Wonderful blossoms, I love blue campanulas!
    Have a nice weekend,
    moni

    Thanks if you visit my blog
    http://www.reflexionblog.de

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  14. Hi! Very beautiful bell flower photo! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. So pretty! Love that deep purple color.

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  16. Happy Easter!
    Thanks for the visit at my place :)
    Greetings from Sweden/Lena

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