Campanula species - various.

[RickR]

One of our Chapter members has a dead ringer for Campanula wanneri, but it is totally perennial for 5 years so far.  So we suspect it might be a hybrid too.

Interesting... could you show a photo of it?

This was a few years ago that I saw it, but I knew I photographed it and here it is.  Okay, not exactly a dead ringer as I remember.  As you say, interesting nonetheless.  Any thoughts?

              

[Lori S.]

I'm not extremely familiar with C. wanneri, but just from photos, it sure looks just like it.   Were there some other details (besides the longevity) that made it seem to be a possible hybrid? Does the owner of the plant send seeds to the seedex?  I'm always curious if these individuals that act differently than most of their tribe pass on traits like that.

[AmyO]

Hi....just back from a nearby hike and happened upon this sweet little Campanula. The flower is really more blue than the photo represents. It was growing in a pretty dry woodland up about 500'. The stem is about 12-14" long and it was a bit sprawling. The foliage is very narrow and about 2-3" long.
I tries finding an ID but the closest I came was C. aparinoides, the marsh bluebell. This was definitley not growing in moist soil.
So any help with an ID would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Lori S.]

I'm not familiar with C. aparinoides but here is some more detailed info on it; it seems the inconspicuously toothed leaves may be significant:
http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/marsh-bellflower

When I zoom in on the photo, I can't make out any toothing on the leaves (not to say it may not be there).

Have you ruled out C. rotundifolia?  The linear upper leaves (only the basal ones are rounded at all) and general flower characteristics, along with the habitat, appear to be a reasonable fit.

Campanula trogerae x betulifolia, with both pink and white flowers:
 

[RickR]

I'm not extremely familiar with C. wanneri, but just from photos, it sure looks just like it.   Were there some other details (besides the longevity) that made it seem to be a possible hybrid? Does the owner of the plant send seeds to the seedex?

The flowers tend more toward outfacing, and the inflorescense structure is not blatantly pronounced.  (While unmistakable in the biennial, it's almost hidden in this one.)  No expert here, either, but it makes for good conversation...

Some pics of C. wanneri I have grown:

          

Ev donates seed to the NARGS seed ex every year, but I don't think she's ever sent this one.  I checked the last two years, at least, and she hasn't.

[Lori S.]

Campanula xtymsonii, apparently a hybrid of an odd couple, C. carpatica and C. pyramidalis, though considered by some to be just a form of C. carpatica (ref.: Nicholls: Dwarf Campanulas):


Campanula cochlearifolia 'Elizabeth Oliver' with its double flowers:
 

[RickR]

I wonder if Elizabeth Oliver is the one I see from time to time sold as a "temporary" flowering plant like a poinsettia or kalanchoe?  It sure looks like it.

What is that deeply toothed lance leaf (or leaflet) plant behind the Campanula xtymsonii?

[Lori S.]

Hi, Rick!  It's Sanguisorba tenuifolia 'Pink Elephant' (assuming I'm keying in on the right one).

Oh, that rang a bell... I think I recall hearing of Campanula 'Haylodgensis' being sold that way, to the extent that people seem not to even realize it's a hardy perennial.  I wonder if that's it?

[Lori S.]

Campanula hercegovina 'Nana':

[RickR]

Yes Lori, that would be it, a sanguisorba.  I could have thought of it, but no...
----- thanks (about your ID suggestion for the campanula, too)

[Tim Ingram]

A few campanulas looking good now as summer gets into its stride. Campanula garganica 'Dickson's Gold' is one of those plants that just glows, a perfect combination of foliage and flower; 'Timsbury Perfection' is a seedling raised by Graham Nicholls, whose knowledge of campanulas is unrivalled, from a form of rotundifolia - my picture does it less than justice but it is a delicate and rather refined plant with neat foliage; and 'Covadonga', one of the most richly coloured of all campanulas, collected in Spain by Clarence Elliott over 70 years ago but rarely cultivated in recent times. Again it has that beautiful airy neatness about it - definitely a plant to propagate up.

[Hoy]

Tim, when I see your beautiful bellflowers I realise I have planted too few of them! I have to mend that

[Horwitz]

Hi Campanula Folks:
   I'm pretty new here, but have finally gotten the knack of reducing the size of pictures for uploading. So, I have a very low-growing campanula (I assume) that I love, but don't know the name of. Can anyone help me?
It's no more than 4cm high, hairy and going out of bloom now, if that's any help.
   Thanks, Lola .... in hot, hot Brooklyn

[Michael J Campbell]

Looks like Campanula sartorii to me, but others might have a different opinion.

Have a look at this pic.

[RickR]

Welcome to the forum, Lola!

I don't know that much about campanulas, but if Michael grows it, it must be good!

Such a cute little thing.  I imagine the bloom period is cut short by all this heat.  Does it normally have a long blooming time?