Seasonal Wild Flowers

Trailing Bellflower

Campanula poscharskyana

Campanulaceae

June to November and through most winters.

It is found throughout the country except for parts of the

Midlands,the North and East Anglia.

See the BSBI distribution map for Trailing Bellflower

It is a neophyte which has been planted in UK gardens

since the 1930s and naturalised in the wild since the

1950s.

It grows on walls and waste ground and in cracks in

pavements.

Trailing Bellflower is a low-growing, trailing. perennial herb.

It is similar to Adria Bellflower, but the flowers are greyer

and with a less pronounced bell.

Flowers are blueish-lilac ranging towards white, with 5

white filamentous stamens and a 3-lobed white stigma.

Sepals are hairy, spreading and sometimes purplish.

Leaves are variable in size, frequently kidney shaped

and may be tinged with purple.

Trailing Bellflower spreads by seed and stem fragments.

Training Bellflower on wall, Dorset

On a wall in Lancashire

Front view of flower - stigma

Front view of flower - stamens

White variety

Side view - shallow bell

Side view - Adria Bellflower - deep bell

Leaves

Leaves - purple tinged