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campanula

campanula

9.6
A garden plant with blue or white bell-shaped flowers
  • noun
  • /kæmˈpæn.jə.lə/
  • Specialized
translation icon : campanilla
  • In my garden, the stunning blue campanula blooms brightly alongside daisies and sunflowers.
  • blue campanulas

Examples

  • The florist arranged a beautiful bouquet that featured delicate white campanula flowers.

  • Typically we've got campanula here, just kind of a ground cover.

  • And then I cut back the white campanulas that I had here and planted those right in here.

  • Every spring, my neighbor plants campanula to add a splash of color to her flower beds.

Synonyms

bellflower
vscampanula
1 7.6

A plant with bell-shaped blue or white flowers

refers to one plant in the genus rather than multiple species

Compounds

Campanula americana
  • Specialized
9.6

A plant with long spikes of blue or white bell-shaped flowers that grows in eastern North America

Campanula aparinoides
  • Specialized
9.9

A small marsh plant in eastern North America with narrow leaves and white bell-shaped flowers

Campanula carpatica
  • Specialized
9.9

A low plant that grows in small clumps with blue or white bell-shaped flowers that comes back every year

Campanula divaricata
  • Specialized
9.9

A small wild flower with pale blue, bell-shaped flowers that grows in southeastern United States woods

Campanula glomerata
  • Specialized
9.9

A garden flower with bell-shaped blooms in dense clusters usually violet-blue or white

Campanula medium
  • Specialized
9.1

A garden plant that usually lives two years with bell-shaped blue, violet, or white flowers, also called Canterbury bell

9.9

A plant from Europe that lives for many years with blue or white bell-shaped flowers in clusters

Campanula pyramidalis
  • Specialized
9.9

A tall garden plant from southeastern Europe with many blue, bell-shaped flowers

9.9

A European plant with purple bell-shaped flowers that can spread and be hard to remove

Campanula rapunculus
  • Specialized
9.9

A bellflower with blue flowers and an edible root used in salads

9.8

A small wild plant with thin stems and blue bell-shaped flowers often called harebell

Campanula trachelium
  • Specialized
9.9

A European bellflower with blue-purple flowers that was used for sore throats

Surface Forms

campanula singular
campanulas plural

Etymology

Campanula comes from the Latin campana 'bell' plus the ending -ula 'small', so it literally means a 'little bell', which is easy to remember because the plant's flowers hang like small bell-shaped cups.