Creeping Bellflower, Rampion Bellflower
Campanula rapunculoides L.
Campanulaceae (Bellflower Family)
▲▼ new seedlings and new shoots arising from older crowns in spring
▲ new shoots from crown arising in spring
▲▼ flowering plants
▲ flowers
▲ large colony along roadside in Minnesota
Creeping Bellflower:
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Creeping perennial in the Bellflower family (Campanulaceae)
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Produces rosettes of long-petioled (up to 6 inches), elongated heart-shaped
leaves (about 4 inches long by 2 inches wide) with toothed edges and pointed tip
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In spring, produces 1-3 foot tall racemes of one-inch long bluish-purple,
bell-shaped flowers with five pointed lobes; flowers sort of hang downward from
the flowering stalk
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Prefers shaded, fertile, adequately moist soils, but may grow in many conditions
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Reproduces readily by seed and rhizomes
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Can survive close mowing and can be invasive, particularly in upper midwest