About Campanula spicata L.
Campanula spicata L. is a hemicryptophyte, meaning its overwintering buds are located just below the soil surface, and it is scapose, with a stalk that grows directly from the ground. On average, this plant reaches a height of 15 to 80 centimeters, which is 5.9 to 31.5 inches. Its stem is erect, striated, and hairy. The plant’s basal leaves are petiolated, narrowly lanceolate, with toothed and wavy margins, while the cauline leaves are smaller, acuminate, and semiamplexicaul. Numerous flowers grow in more or less dense, long spikes. These flowers are blue-purple, 15 to 25 millimeters long, and shaped from bell-shaped to funnel-shaped. They are sessile, and grow from the axils of triangular bracts. The calyx lobes are hairy, lanceolate, and approximately one third the length of the flower. The corolla measures around 16 to 21 millimeters, or 0.63 to 0.83 inches, in length. Its flowering period runs from June through August. This plant is endemic to the central and southern Alps, the Apennines, and the Balkan Peninsula. It grows mainly in mountain meadows on dry, stony soils, on steep slopes, cliffs, and rocky steppes of dry valleys, at an altitude between 400 and 2,500 meters (1,300 to 8,200 feet) above sea level.
