Clumping perennial herb to about 40 cm tall. Lower leaves roundish, cordate, with long stalks and round-toothed margins. Upper leaves with tapered tips, shortly stalked only. Flowers about 3 cm long, bell-shaped with small lobes, held erect, longstalked, violet, blue or white; summer.
Carpathian Mountains
Cultivars vary in leaf shape and flower colour.
var. turbinata (Schott, Nyman & Kotschy) Nichols. has a smaller habit than the type and is also available as the cultivar 'Alba', which has white flowers. C. ×pseudoraineri hort. is similar to C. carpatica var. turbinata but has paler leaves (C. carpatica var. turbinata × C. raineri).
Source: (2002). Campanulaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Campanula carpatica 'Blue Clips'
Flowers pale sky blue on a hummock of foliage.
Originating from the Benary Nursery in Germany. ['Blaue Clips']
Campanula carpatica 'White Clips'
Flowers white.
Originating from the Benary Nursery in Germany ['Weisse Clips']