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Category: Flowering Plants: Perennials for Sun: Mid-Season: Medium (18" - 36")
Status: Growing from Cuttings/Divisions
Initial Notes:
Height: 12-36"
Spacing: 12"
Light: Full sun
Hardiness:
Source: from trade (Ellen)
Starting in May, flowers appear on thin stalks. Lavender bell-shaped, with 5 pointed bracts, with the majority of petals on one side of the plant's stalk.
Leaves are narrow, toothed. Lower leaves wider and heart-shaped.
A common name for Creeping Bellflower in Europe is Rampion, which comes from the plant's Latin name. Rampion figures prominently in Old World fairy tales.
Rapunzel is named after the flower, and her exile to the tower is a witch's punishment to the girl's father, who stole rampion from her magic garden to help his wife in childbirth. In another story, a maid who digs up a rampion plant discovers a staircase that leads to a magnificent underground palace.
