Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Peachleaf Bellflower - Campanula persicifolia   L.
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Section 6 » Order Campanulales » Family Campanulaceae
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AuthorL.
DistributionA single collection known: Haywood County, dry successional roadbank within housing development, 2017, M. Brock 1732 (APSC). Reported by Small (1933) as escaping from gardens in western NC.

Native of Eurasia; in N.A. -- N.B. to Ont., south to NC and MN; also UT; B.C. to OR.
AbundanceVery rare.
HabitatDry successional roadbank.
PhenologyFlowering June.
IdentificationThe plants grow about 2 feet tall from several slender basal leaves. The stem leaves are similar, stalkless, eventually becoming mere bracts beneath flowers. The rather large corollas are blue to lavender, cup-shaped, arranged along a long terminal raceme. Most flowers face horizontally.
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