Clustered Bellflower, Campanula glomerata, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, Dane's Blood

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Clustered Bellflower	Campanula glomerata L.	Bellflower (Campanulaceae)	Upland	Early Summer
Other names and notes	(Dane's Blood). An erect plant of 1 to 2 feet height with a hairy stem and a cluster of blue bell-shaped flowers at the top and also smaller clusters in some of the leaf axils. The long lance shaped leaves have hairy wavy edges. A few plants exist in isolated places in the Upland Garden.


Above: A single specimen with Leafy Spurge and St. Johnswort in the background.	Above: A smaller flower cluster springing from the leaf axil. All blooms from early July. Above and Below: Leaf examples: Note the hairy edges.

Notes: A non-native, introduced from Europe, its' only know habitat outside of gardens where it has been collected is near Duluth where it probably escaped from a Garden. It was present in the Garden at the time of Martha Crone's 1951 Garden census.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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