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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 ...
The family Campanulaceae (also bellflower family), of the order Asterales, contains nearly 2400 species in 84 genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and rarely small trees, often with milky sap. [2] Among them are several familiar garden plants belonging to the genera Campanula (bellflower), Lobelia , and Platycodon (balloonflower).
Forsythia viridissima, variously called the Chinese golden bell tree, green-stemmed forsythia, greenstem forsythia, and Korean forsythia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Forsythia, native to southern China and South Korea, and introduced to Japan and the United States. [2] [3] It flowers about two weeks later than other forsythias. [4]
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.
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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).