Rapunzel Glockenblume (MVP)

Rapunzel Glockenblume

Campanula rapunculoides

Summary ⁶

Campanula rapunculoides, known by the common names creeping bellflower or rampion bellflower, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Campanula, belonging to the family Campanulaceae.

Description ⁷

Campanula rapunculoides reaches on average 30–80 centimetres (12–31 in) of height, with a maximum of 120 centimetres (47 in). The stem is simple, erect and lightly pubescent and the leaves are usually shortly hairy. The basal leaves are triangular, narrow, with a heart-shaped or rounded base, jagged edges and are up to 12 centimetres (4.7 in) long. The upper stem leaves are sessile, lanceolate and shortly stalked.

The inflorescence consists of nodding spikelike racemes with numerous drooping flowers. The flowers are bright blue-violet (rarely white), 2 to 4 cm long, with short petioles standing to one side in the axils of the bracts. The bracts are quite different and smaller than the leaves. The sepals are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, entire, wide at the base up to 2.5 mm. The corolla is bell-shaped, with five deep lobes slightly ciliate. The flowering period extends from June through September. The flowers are pollinated by insects (bees, flies, butterflies, etc.) (entomophily). The fruit is a capsule with five pores near the base, where the seeds are spread.

This plant has its overwintering buds situated just below the soil surface (hemicryptophyte). It spreads by underground rhizomes and produces deep, taproot-shaped tubers. Both are white and fleshy. Because any piece of the roots can sprout into a new plant, it is extremely hard to eradicate.

Habitat ⁷

It grows on grassy places, dry hills, meadows, in deciduous and pine forests, woods, fields and roadsides, along railway lines and hedgerows, preferably in partial shade, in dry to moist sites and on clay soils, relatively rich in nitrogen, at an altitude of 0–2,000 metres (0–6,562 ft) above sea level. It also occurs in cultivated fields as a weed.

Associations ⁸

In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / saprobe
scattered, brownish, covered then erumpent pycnidium of Ascochyta coelomycetous anamorph of Ascochyta carpathica is saprobic on dead peduncle of Campanula rapunculoides
Remarks: season: 10-3

Foodplant / parasite
telium of Coleosporium tussilaginis parasitises live Campanula rapunculoides

Foodplant / parasite
apothecium of Leptotrochila radians parasitises Campanula rapunculoides

Foodplant / parasite
Leveillula taurica parasitises Campanula rapunculoides

Foodplant / saprobe
scattered or several together pycnidium of Phomopsis coelomycetous anamorph of Phomopsis minuscula is saprobic on capsule of Campanula rapunculoides
Remarks: season: 1-3

Foodplant / spot causer
mainly hypophyllous colony of Ramularia hyphomycetous anamorph of Ramularia macrospora causes spots on live leaf of Campanula rapunculoides

Sources and Credits

(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/4970801402
(c) Kari Pihlaviita, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/42267636@N08/7623122404/
(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/35478170@N08/4996750085
(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/plant_diversity/4996751095/
(c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/plant_diversity/4997357988/
Adapted by Bea Steinemann from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_rapunculoides
(c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanula_rapunculoides
(c) BioImages, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/22908989

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