Biennial herb to about 1m tall with a thick taproot. Leaves at base forming a rosette, rough, elliptic, stalkless and with round-toothed margins, the upper leaves smaller and lanceolate. Flowers terminal or axillary in open clusters; summer. Corolla bellshaped, swollen at the base, blue to mauve, pink, white or carmine; summer.

Southern Europe

Grown for the amazing bell flowers, occasionally dwarf or double, and in a range of colours. Sometimes available as seed series.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Campanulaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.