General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9a
Plant Height: 70-90 cm
Plant Spread: 30-40 cm
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Lavender
Purple
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Groundcover
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Sow seed in containers in a cold frame in spring. Alpine species should be sown in an open frame.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Root
Division
Other: take basal root cuttings
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger

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Common names
  • Throatwort
  • Nettle-leaved Bellflower
  • Coventry Bells
  • Our Lady's Thimbles
  • Bellflower

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Location: Hohe Tauern - Austria
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Date: 2023-06-08
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 4000-01-11
Campanula trachelium
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-07-31
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-07-31
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2011-08-11
Location: My garden, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; zone 3.
Date: 2013-08-12

Courtesy Gardens in the Wood of Grassy Creek
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photo credit: Philipendula

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