Campanulaceae FAMILY

Campanula rapunculoides

Edibility

3/5

Medicinal

1/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Campanula rapunculoides is a herbaceous perennial plant with a thick, branching root that sometimes produces long underground shoots. It produces a cluster of erect, usually unbranched stems around 30 - 100cm tall, and can spread very freely when well-suited to the site[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. , 200 Title The New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. 1992. Publication Author Huxley. A. Publisher MacMillan Press Year 1992 ISBN 0-333-47494-5 Description Excellent and very comprehensive, though it contains a number of silly mistakes. Readable yet also very detailed. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food - it has in the past been cultivated as a root crop and is still grown as an ornamental.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurasia - Norway to Spain, through Russia and Greece to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran and Turkey

HabitatFields and woods[ 100 Title Flowers of Europe - A Field Guide. Publication Author Polunin. O. Publisher Oxford University Press Year 1969 ISBN 0192176218 Description An excellent and well illustrated pocket guide for those with very large pockets. Also gives some details on plant uses. ]. Naturalised in Britain where it grows in fields and more or less disturbed grassy areas such as railway banks, occasionally in woods, usually near to houses[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ].