Creeping Bellflower

Creeping Bellflower, Rampion Bellflower

Campanula rapunculoides L.

Campanulaceae (Bellflower Family)

▲ ▼ new seedlings and new shoots arising from older crowns in spring

▲ new shoots from crown arising in spring

▲ ▼ flowering plants

▲ flowers

▲ large colony along roadside in Minnesota

Creeping Bellflower

Creeping perennial in the Bellflower family (Campanulaceae)
Produces rosettes of long-petioled (up to 6 inches), elongated heart-shaped leaves (about 4 inches long by 2 inches wide) with toothed edges and pointed tip
In spring, produces 1-3 foot tall racemes of one-inch long bluish-purple, bell-shaped flowers with five pointed lobes; flowers sort of hang downward from the flowering stalk
Prefers shaded, fertile, adequately moist soils, but may grow in many conditions
Reproduces readily by seed and rhizomes
Can survive close mowing and can be invasive, particularly in upper midwest