About Campanula trachelium L.
Campanula trachelium L. is a perennial plant. It grows one or more unbranched, often reddish, roughly hairy square-edged stems. Leaves are arranged alternately along the stems. Lower leaves are long-stalked and ovate, with a heart-shaped base. Upper leaves are stalkless, ovate or lanceolate, hairy, and have toothed margins. The inflorescence forms a one-sided spike holding a few slightly nodding flowers. Each flower has five fused, erect, hairy sepals. Its five violet petals (occasionally white) are fused into a bell shape that is hairy on the inside. Each flower contains five stamens and a pistil made from three fused carpels. The fruit this plant produces is a hairy, nodding capsule. This species prefers humus-rich soil, and grows in broad-leaved woodlands, coppices, hedgerows, and forest margins.
