unknown Campanula

[shelagh]

Help needed to identify this lovely little campula.  It is 6-8 inches high, although it's habit is more down than up.  The colour is wonderfully deep like C. pulla but it has a branched stem.  Flowers face down rather than up, foliage is small and neat.

[ChrisB]

No idea Shelagh, but it is very nice.  Looks like a nomad?

[shelagh]

I've no idea where we got it from Chris.  It looks as if it should be tumbling down a cliff face somewhere.

[reifuan]

I think it's Campanula raddeana

[Maggi Young]

See this blog of Kata's to see her plant of C. raddeana  - she is growing hers with support for the trailling stems ; she is , after all, growing it on a balcony and would like to see the flowers rather than have them dangling over the edge   

http://gardenonbalcony.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/campanula-raddeana.html

[shelagh]

Thanks for the link Maggi but that is much larger than ours.  I'm hoping to put it in tomorrow in 6 cut flowers but for now it will have to remain anonymous.

[Maggi Young]

I wonder if Kata's isn't just a big form, or perhaps another species?  Other pictures I've found online show plants with foliage  more like yours...... trying to find a full description..... I'll be back 

[Maggi Young]

Well, unless someone here has access to the full text of this : Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg 10:395. 1866 ,      I cannot find a full description of the plant. 

Here is  Todd Boland's pic of C. raddeana : https://www.nargs.org/plant/campanula-raddeana

[Lori S.]

In Graham Nicholls' Dwarf Campanulas, he says C. raddeana has "tufts of stiff, glossy, cordate, serrate leaves to 5 cm wide on long, hairless petioles"; stems are multibranched, 20-30 cm tall; stem leaves on short, winged, toothed petioles.  Flowers: pendant, lavender-blue, to 2cm long and 3cm wide, racemes of up to 15; corolla is lobed to about 1/3 its length, reflexed lobes.  Style as long or longer than the corolla. Orange-toned pollen.

[Maggi Young]

In Graham Nicholls' Dwarf Campanulas, he says C. raddeana has "tufts of stiff, glossy, cordate, serrate leaves to 5 cm wide on long, hairless petioles"; stems are multibranched, 20-30 cm tall; stem leaves on short, winged, toothed petioles.  Flowers: pendant, lavender-blue, to 2cm long and 3cm wide, racemes of up to 15; corolla is lobed to about 1/3 its length, reflexed lobes.  Style as long or longer than the corolla. Orange-toned pollen.

Just what I was looking for Lori - just didn't have the book!