Campanula rapunculoides

Acker bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides )

The arable bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides ) is a species in the genus of the bellflower (Campanula ).

Description

The arable bellflower is a perennial, herbaceous plant, a Hemikryptophyt. It often forms beet -like thickened roots, but always underground runners. The plants are 30 to 80 cm high, standing at her bald rough-haired or short, blunt -edged stems upwards the leaves with shorter petioles that are sitting top. The basal leaves absent at flowering time, they are heart-shaped to triangular, pointed notched and stalked. The lower stem leaves are narrow cordate, stalked and about 2 cm wide. The upper stem leaves are lanceolate, shortly petiolate to sessile. The leaves are green and short hair at the bottom.

The flowers appear singly in einseitswendigen grapes. They are 2 to 3 cm long, short-stalked and strong blue - violet. The bracts are significantly different from foliage leaves, are much smaller than this and overtop the flowers but little. The sepals are lanceolate to ovate - lanceolate, entire, up to 2.5 mm wide and abspreizend to recurved at the base. In the bays between the sepals, there is no appendage. The crown is divided almost to the center, the corolla lobes are slightly ciliated, the crown is not crinkled at the bottom. Bloom time is June to September.

The fruits are nodding, short haired and open near the base with three pores ( porizide capsule fruit).

Dissemination

The arable Bellflower is located in Europe and western Siberia. It grows at the hem sunny bushes, in light deciduous and pine forests, on forest and roadsides and fields, preferably in partial shade, dry to fresh sites.

The plant is native to Central Europe a so-called Apophyt, as originally native to the forest type on anthropogenic sites changed than in Central Europe about 7,000 years ago, forests were cleared by people in order to make room for farmland. These locations were more open than most natural and they were disturbed regularly and thus offered the arable Bellflower optimal living conditions.

Swell

• Acker bellflower. In: FloraWeb.de.
• Siegmund Seybold (ed.): Schmeil Fitschen - interactive ( CD -Rom ), Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2001/2002, ISBN 3-494-01327-6 ( Features )