BELLFLOWER
BELLFLOWER Campanula is one of several genera of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae with the common name Bellflower. It takes both its common and its scientific name from its bell-shaped flowers— campanula is Latin for "little bell". Bellflower (genus Campanula) includes any of around 420 annual, perennial and biennial herbs that compose the genus Campanula (family Campanulaceae) . Bellflowers have characteristically bell-shaped, usually blue flowers, and many are cultivated as garden ornamentals. Most Bellflowers begin blooming in July and keep on flowering until frost. The sweetness of its smell is similar to candle wax mixed with amber and lipstick. The flowers are produced in panicles, sometimes solitary, and have a five-lobed corolla, typically 2 to 5 cm or more long, mostly blue to purple, sometimes also white or pink. Below the corolla, 5 leaf-like sepals form the calyx. Some species have a small additional leaf...