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Campanula punctata
Campanula punctata, the spotted bellflower, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. This ornamental herbaceous perennial is native to Japan, Korea, China and Siberia, and is widely cultivated for its attractive bell-shaped flowers.
The Latin specific epithet punctata means "spotted".
It is valued for its highly ornamental blooms, and is widely cultivated in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Several forms and cultivars have been developed, including:
'Pantaloons'
Campanula punctata is found in sunny East Asian forest edges, thickets and meadows below 2300 m. In China it occurs in E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, W Henan, W Hubei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shanxi, NE Sichuan. It is also widely distributed in Japan, Korea, and the far East of Russia (Siberia).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Campanula punctata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
