Campanula latifolia
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Growing form
Perennial herb with latex.
Size
60–120 cm high.
Stem
The stem is erect, simple, obtusely angular – nearly terete, and nearly glabrous. The rhizome is short.
Leaf
The leaf arrangement is spiral. The petiole is typically widely alate. The size of the lamina is 5–15 cm x 3–8 cm. The lamina is doubly serrate with low teeth and pilose. The proximal leaves are long-petiolate and cordate – ovate. The distal leaves are nearly sessile and ovate – ovate-lanceolate.
Flower
The inflorescence is a raceme with numerous flowers. The axillary flowers are arranged individually or in groups of two or three and subtended by bracts. The flowers are first erect and eventually slightly drooping. The flowers are bisexual. The calyx, corolla and androecium are five-leaved. The calyx is connate. The lobes are narrowly lanceolate and eventually spreading. The corolla (35–60 mm) is connate, campanulate and purple (rarely white). The ovary is inferior and contains 2–5 locules. The style is pubescent. The stigma is trilobate.
Fruit and seed
The capsule is drooping, globose, prominently veined, glabrous and poricidal.
The map represents observations of this taxon, but it may not be used as a distribution map.
- Total squares
- ukonkello (Finnish)
- hässleklocka (Swedish)
- TNV - alien, new, resident
- 3 - spreading in the wild; completely of cultivated origin
- 2019 NA – Not Applicable
- 2010 NA – Not Applicable
- Mikko Piirainen
- Vascular plants