Campanula latifolia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Campanula latifolia, Linn. Perennial, 3-4 ft.: lvs. large, doubly serrate; root-lvs. sometimes 6 in. long, petiolate, cordate, covered with soft hairs; st.-lvs. sessile, more acuminate: peduncle 1-fld.; calyx-lobes long-acuminate, one-third shorter than the corolla; fls. 6-15 in a loose spike or raceme about 8 in. long, erect, very large, 2½ in. long, purple or dark blue, hairy. Eu., Persia. G.W. 8, p. 445. Var. macrantha, Sims (C. macrantha, Fisch.) is commoner in cult, than the type, a little hairier, with a glabrous calyx and very large fls. B.M. 2553, 3347. R.H. 1897, p. 239. J.H. III. 60:263. Var. eriocarpa, DC., has the st. and lvs. pilose and more pallid, and a hispid calyx-tube. There is a white-fld. form. It is native to England, and is easily naturalized there in wild gardens. The st.-lvs. are probably the largest of any of the garden kinds, often 3½ in. long and 2 in. wide. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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