Common name:
Peach-leaved bellflower
Family:
Scientific name:
Campanula persicifolia
Main flower color:
Range:
Scattered parts of England and Wales; an introduced species
Height:
Up to 70 cm
Habitat:
Meadows, grassland, hedgebanks
Flowers:
Purple to blue, with a broad, bell-shaped corolla opening to five short, rounded lobes, and a green, hairless calyx divided below the middle into five spreading, lance-shaped lobes, significantly wider at the base than the tip. Flowers form singly or in pairs, in an elongated cluster over the upper portion of the stem
Leaves:
Stem leaves are narrowly lanceolate, up to 10 cm long, with small, well-separated teeth, while basal leaves are more ovate, otherwise similar
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★