Seasonal Wild Flowers

Peach-leaved Bellflower

Campanula persicifolia

Campanulaceae

June to August

It is thinly scattered throughout the country, but is most

common in the South and Easy Anglia.

See the BSBI distribution map for Peach-leaved Bellflower

It is a neophyte which has been grown in gardens since

the 1590s.

Naturalised escapes have been noted since the early

1900s. They grow in scrubland and woodland and by

paths and tracks.

Peach-leaved Bellflower is a showy, rhizomatous, perennial

herb, growing up to 1m.

Flowers are usually blue (occasionally white), broadly bell-

shaped and up to 3.5cm.

It is protandrous with the stamens shrivelling before the

3 linear-lobed stigmas appear.

Leaves are thin and linear to lanceolate.

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Peach-leaved Bellflower

Flowers, 3 stigmas, remains of stamens

Form with blue stigmas, stamens

Side view - long pointed sepals

Thin, linear, lanceolate leaves