Campanula and relatives 2020

[fermi de Sousa]

If it's that small it could be Campanula lourica.
I grew a white form a few years ago http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=207.0
cheers
fermi

[Roma]

I have a similar Campanula seeding around in my greenhouse.  I think I got it many years ago as aff. cashmeriana.  I decided, according to Graham Nicholls' book it was probably Campanula samarkandensis.  I find it behaves like a lot of Violas and produces lots of apomictic seed.

[Leucogenes]

Thank you for your efforts Gerd and Fermi...


I think I found the right name...Campanula cashmeriana var. alba...I found a photo near Pavelka of which the seeds probably were. Indian Himalayas, 3300 meters.

[Roma]

Cyananthus integer x sherriffii - from Jack Drake's nursery a very long time ago.

[Diane Whitehead]

This is from the 2013 seed exchange, listed as Campanula versicolor.

I have just read about C versicolor - its leaves are used as a winter salad.  From one website:  A delicious mild flavour with a slight sweetness that reminds people of freshly-picked garden peas - they can be added in quantity to salads and are usually available in winter

Well!  No one would want to eat my plants.  Prickly stems, prickly leaves. Even the deer won't eat it.

So it is obviously not C. versicolor but what is it?

[Carolyn]

I don’t know what it is, but what a brilliant colour!

[Diane Whitehead]

Well, Carolyn, I wish it really was so blue.  My iPad improved the lavender colour for me.

I've searched my three campanula books and the internet.

I think maybe it could be Campanula primulifolia.  The flowers look similar. Lewis and Lynch's book says the stems are "hispid", which means "bristly".  Tomorrow I will go out to see if the plant matches the rest of the description.

[Roma]

Campanula cashmeriana is still flowering.  It seeds into other pots in the greenhouse.  This one sharing a pot with Polygala calcarata is doing much better than the one I put into its own pot.  Maybe it prefers to have company.