Appearance
Outward-drooping, bell-shaped, campanulate, lilac to light purple flowers (corolla to 3/4” long) in loose terminal spikes bloom July to September atop 2-3' tall stems rising from a rosette of petiolate, cordate-ovate, gray-green leaves. Sessile, serrate-margined, ovate to lanceolate stem leaves (to 3” long near the base of the stem) decrease in size going up the stem.Naming
Genus name comes from the Latin campana meaning bell in reference to the bell-shaped flowers.Specific epithet means of Bologna (formerly Bononia), Italy.
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