Photos: Bandon, Co.Cork |
Adria Bellflower /Dalmatian Bellflower 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