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Photos: Bandon, Co.Cork


Adria Bellflower /Dalmatian Bellflower
Campanula portenschlagiana
Family: Campanulaceae

Flowering April-August. Perennial. Introduced. Garden escape.

Many purple-blue flowers, like up-turned bells covering foliage. Ivy-like leaves,
shiny, bright-green, evergreen. Hairless. Self-seeds, also spreads vegetatively
from root fragments. Vigorous mat-forming growth. Spread to 50cm.

Open or slightly shaded well-drained alkaline soil. Mainly found on walls,
also pavements, waste ground.

Similar: Trailing Bellflower, C. poscharskyana
     



Adria Bellflower, Campanula portenschlagiana. June 2008

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