CAMPANULACE.^— BELLFLOWER 



FAMILY 



CREEPING BELLFLOWER 



Campdnula rapunculoides 



Campanula, diminutive of the Latin campatia, a bell. 



Perennial. Naturalized from Europe. A rather rigid, 

 leafy plant about two feet high, bear- 

 ing a raceme of violet-blue bells. 

 Escaped from gardens into roadsides 

 and fields. Most abundant in New 

 England and the Middle States, 

 occasionally found in Ohio. July- 

 September. 



Stem. — In tufts from a creeping 

 root. Rather stout, leafy, two to 

 three feet high. 



Leaves. — Alternate, hairy, ovate- 

 lanceolate, crenate-denticulate, 

 pointed; the lower long-petioled and 

 sometimes heart-shaped. 



Flowers. — Blue bells, wide open; 

 five-lobed, borne in an erect, one- 

 sided raceme; each flower in the axil 

 of a bract. 



Calyx. — Five-cleft. 



Corolla. — Bell-shaped, five-lobed, 

 an inch or more long. 



Stamens. — Five, free from the co- ^ . ^ ,,a 



11 ri ,1 1^1 Creeping Bellflower. Cam- 



rolla; nlaments broad at base. panuia rapunculoides 



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