Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Creeping Bellflower - Campanula rapunculoides   L.
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Section 6 » Order Campanulales » Family Campanulaceae
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DistributionNorthern Mountains only. A specimen from Forsyth County does not state whether growing wild or cultivated. First collected in 1908 at Blowing Rock, Watauga County, by A. Cuthbert.

Native of Eurasia; in N.A. across Canada south to NC, TN, TX, NM, NV.
AbundanceVery rare.
HabitatNo data.
PhenologyFlowering June-August.
IdentificationThis is a tall plant, 2-3 feet high, with ovate, pointed, cordate-based basal and lower leaves. Middle and upper stem leaves are much narrower and eventually non-cordate. The racemes of pale blue to lavender flowers grow on long axillary stalks and tend to face somewhat downward or are dangling.
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B.A. SorrieRoadside, northern CO, August 2022. Photo_non_NCPhoto_non_NC
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