Scientific Name: Campanula punctata (incl. hybrids)
Common Name: spotted bellflower
Family Name: Campanulaceae
Origin: Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Mounded, Pyramidal - narrowly
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Perennial border, Rock garden
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, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Raceme, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Basal leaves broadly ovate, bases cordate, petioles 4-8cm long; stem leaves alternate, sessile, ovate-lanceolate, bases attenuate, margins coarsely serrate, most blades 6-10cm long x 5-9cm wide, petiolate; florets on long peduncles, drooping, about 5cm long (more tubular than other bell flowers), Jun-Aug.