Clustered Bellflower

Clustered Bellflower

Clustered Bellflower Campanula glomerata has the bell-shaped flowers of five joined petals that is a characteristic feature of the Bluebell Family. The violet-blue flowers in this species are clumped at the tip of the stem unlike those of the closely-related Creeping Bellflower Campanula rapunculoides that has its bells all the way up one side of the stem. Both species have escaped from gardens and grow wild along roadsides in North America. [CH] {GW}