Authentic Wisconsin.  Creeping Bellflower - Campanula rapunculoides


Creeping Bellflower by home on June 30 2020.

Above: Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin (6/30/20).


Creeping Bellflower - Campanula rapunculoides

Invasive but still pretty.

Introduced as an ornamental, creeping bellflower escaped gardens and is now found throughout Wisconsin. It invades fields, stream banks, woodlands, prairies, roadsides, urban areas, and oak savannas. It is restricted in Wisconsin. Creeping Bellflower is very difficult to eradicate once established because it spreads both from seed as well as its root system.

Individual flowers are about 1 - 1 1/2" inch long, nod slightly, and are bell-shaped with 5 pointed lobes.

Other names include: Rampion bellflower, Rover bellflower.

Creeping Bellflowers look similar to native Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia).

Creeping Bellflower in Oak Savanna in Madison, Wisconsin on June 25, 2020.

Above: Creeping Bellflower in Oak Savanna in Madison, Wisconsin on May 20, 2019.




BELL FLOWER
(Campanula rapunculoides)
by Scottish author, Elizabeth Gordon

Little Bell Flower ran away

From the gardener one fine day,

Never did come back again;

Liked it better on the plain!




For more information on Creeping Bellflower, visit Wikipedia.

Or, view the University of Wisconsin Master Gardener Program PDF about Creeping Bellflower, Gleochoma hederaceae.

Or, visit the Division Extension Wisconsin Horticulture website page about Creeping Bellflower.


Creeping Bellflower in Oak Savanna in Madison, Wisconsin on June 25, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by Thoreau School in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by Thoreau School in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower in Nakoma Park on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 29, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 29, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by Duck Pond in Madison, Wisconsin on June 28, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way in Madison, Wisconsin on June 30, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on June 30, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on June 30, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 9, 2020.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on June 26, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 1, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 6, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 8, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 8, 2019.
Creeping Bellflower at Thoreau in Madison, Wisconsin on July 3, 2021.
Creeping Bellflower at Thoreau in Madison, Wisconsin on July 3, 2021.
Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 9, 2021.

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Creeping Bellflower
Campanula rapunculoides


Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way on June 26, 2020.


Above: Creeping Bellflower on Manitou Way. (6/26/20)


Creeping Bellflower in Nakoma Park on June 26, 2020.


Above: Creeping Bellflower in Nakoma Park. (7/09/20)


Creeping Bellflower by home in Madison, Wisconsin on July 9, 2021.


Above: Creeping Bellflower in Nakoma Park. (7/09/21)




Above: A video created by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Horticulture Extension that provides key characteristics for the identification of Wisconsin's invasive Creeping Bellflower (2011).


1918 Bell Flower  Wildflower Children by Elizabeth Gordon with illustration by Janet Laura Scott.

Creeping Bellflower botanical illustration circa 1917-1926.


Above: Creeping Bellflower botanical illustration circa 1917-1926.


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