List 4 – Campanula poscharskyana
Campanula poscharskyana (Serbian bellflower)
Family: Campanulaceae
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8
Size:
- 1-1.5 ft wide
- 5-1 ft tall
Form:
- Low, sprawling
- Forming low mounds
Soil & Water requirements:
- Medium moisture
- Well-drained
- Particularly happy with limey soil (will seed itself into crack of concrete wall)
Exposure:
- Full sun to part shade
Leaves:
- Oval-rounded to cordate shaped leaves
- Leaves have long petioles; smaller petioles in sun
- Herbaceous perennial; semi-evergreen in warmer climates
Flowers:
- Lavender-blue, star-shaped flowers
- Floriferous stems; showy
- Long bloom period; 6 or more weeks
Suitable uses:
- Ground cover for small spaces
- Front of border
- On slab gardens
- Container planting
- Concrete wall with cracks
- Top of wall
- Rock gardens
Propagation:
- In spring: clumps can be divided
Other:
- Commonly confused with dalmation bellflower; but dalmation bellflower has darker blue and rounded petals