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Campanula persicifolia
(C.
amabilis) |
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Peach-leaved Bellflower, Willow Bellflower, Peachbells,
Paper Bellflower |
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3-7 |
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Europe and
Northeastern Asia |
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2-3 feet tall and 18 inches wide |
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The deep blue to
white flowers are pedicelled
and are borne solitary in an elongated terminal or
axillary raceme. The 5 lobed corolla is broadly
campanulate and 1˝ wide. The calyx lobes are
acuminate, entire and half as long as the corolla. |
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Late spring to
early summer |
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Alternate rosette
leaves are oblong-lanceolate,
to 8 inches long, entire, to crenate margin, glabrous stem
leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 3-4 inches long, often
sessile to the stem. |
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- 'Alba' - White flowers.
- 'Coerulea Coronata' - semidouble
purple-blue flowers.
- 'Fleur de Neige' - Double white
flowers.
- 'Grandiflora Alba' - White flowers, 2 inches wide.
- 'Pride of Exmouth' - semidouble blue flowers.
- 'Telham
Beauty' - Porcelain blue flowers, 2-3 inches wide,
48 inches tall.
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