Campanula rapunculoides

This perennial is also called the ‘June Bell’, and it produces numerous large, funnel-shaped purple to violet flowers. The leaves are green and broadly cordate, with toothed margins. The plant grows up to 80cm high, and the flowers 20 to 30mm in length.

It has a fairly long flowering period from June to September.

It makes for a beautiful rockery perennial, or grown at the front of a border or to spread and hang over a low wall. In the wild it is found growing on roadside verges, railway banks and wasteland. An introduced species, it is scattered throughout the British Isles.

Photograph of Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides), taken September 2016, rear garden, Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D7200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens. ISO 400. 1/60 sec. f/8.