| Scientific Name: | Campanula medium |
| Common Name: | Canterbury bells |
| Family Name: | Campanulaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Biennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Mounded, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Sessile, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Ciliate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Blue, Violet, Pink, May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal rosette in first year, anceolate to elliptical, 12-15cm long x 2-4cm wide including the long petiole, margin serrate, upper leaves formed in second year are smaller, alternate, lanceolate and sessile, almost embracing the stem; florets in a racemose inflorescence of extremely long lasting blooms, bell-shaped flowers with short pedicels, corolla has five fused petals with lightly bent lobes, violet-blue or rarely white. | |