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European Bellflower

Campanula rapunculoides. Campanula Family.

Stem.--Erect; slender; usually rather tall. Stem-leaves.--Narrowly oval; pointed; alternate; the lower ones long-stemmed and heart-shaped. Flowers.--Blue or purple; bell-shaped; nodding. Calyx.--Five-cleft. Corolla.--About one inch long; bell-shaped; five-lobed. Stamens.--Five. Pistil.--One, with three stigmas, which unfold rather late in the flower's life.

This European bellflower has become very common in parts of the country; especially in New England it brightens the fields and roadsides in the neighborhood of the villages and farm-houses, from whose gardens originally it made its escape.