Canterbury Bells or Campanula medium

Canterbury Bells growing in central Bhutan's Bumthang valley.

Campanula medium, common name Canterbury Bells, also known as the bell flower, is an annual or biennial flowering plant of the genus Campanula, belonging to the family Campanulaceae. In floriography, it represents gratitude, or faith and constancy.

The genus Latin name ("campanula"), meaning small bell, refers to the bell-shape of the flower, while the specific epithet ("medium") means that this plant has intermediate characteristics in respect of other species of the same genus.

Campanula medium reaches approximately 60--80 centimetres (24--31 in) in height. This biennial herbaceous plant forms rosettes of leaves in the first year, stems and flowers in the second one. The stem is erect, robust, reddish-brown and bristly hairy. The basal leaves are stalked and lanceolate to elliptical and 12--15 centimetres (4.7--5.9 in) long with serrated leaf edge. The upper leaves are smaller, lanceolate and sessile, almost embracing the stem.

The flowers are arranged in a racemose inflorescence of extremely long lasting blooms. These attractive bell-shaped flowers are short-stalked, large and hermaphroditic, with different shades of violet-blue or rarely white. The corolla has five fused petals with lightly bent lobes.

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