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Campanula are commonly known as bellflowers and take both their common and scientific names from the bell-shaped flowers—campanula is Latin for "little bell". The genus includes over 500 species and several subspecies , distributed across the temperate and subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere , with centers of diversity in the ...
Up to twenty flowers are arranged near the top of the flowering stem that has small, leaf-like bracts. The flowers are usually red with yellow lobes. The flowers are usually red with yellow lobes. The sepals and petals are fused to form a tube-shaped, cylindrical or bell-shaped flower with six lobes about one-fifth the length of the tube.
Campanula americana, the American bellflower, [3] or tall bellflower, [4] is a bellflower native to eastern North America.Tall bellflowers can be annual or biennial with a varying life-history with seeds germinating in the fall producing annual plants and spring-germinating seeds producing biennial plants.
The flower is usually red with yellow lobes, but sometimes entirely yellow. The stamens are attached to the inside wall of the flower tube, just below its middle. Flowering occurs from late spring to early summer, and is followed by the fruit which is a capsule about 60 mm (2.4 in) long on a stalk up to 60 mm (2.4 in) long.
The habit of this plant can be a small tree or a shrub up to 15 feet tall, and the flowers are hermaphroditic. These white trumpet shaped flowers can grow to about 6 inches long, and are followed by woody oval-shaped fruit 2–3 cm long with a dry appearance (Tucker 2010).
Campanula alpestris, the alpine bellflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. [1] It is native to the southwestern European Alps. [2]The generic name (Campanula) comes from the shape of a bell flower; in particular, the word comes from Latin and means: small bell.