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Campanula

noun

Any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers. Synonym: bellflower.

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"Campanula" Quotes from Famous Books

... wood full of rocks, and out upon the moor. O, Clara, you cannot think what it is to sit upon one of those rocks, all covered with moss and lichen, and the ferns growing in every cleft and cranny, and the beautiful little ivy-leafed campanula wreathing itself about the moss, and such a soft, free, delicious air blowing all around. And Edmund and I used to take out a book, and read and sketch ...

— The Two Guardians • Charlotte Mary Yonge

... see why cup-shaped flowers so often droop their heads - think of the harebell, the snowdrop, the lily-of-the- valley, the campanula, and a host of others; how pretty they look with their bells hanging so modestly from the slender stalk! They are bending down to protect the honey-glands within them, for if the cup became full of rain or dew the honey would be useless, and the ...

— The Fairy-Land of Science • Arabella B. Buckley

Words linked to "Campanula" : Canterbury bell, creeping bellflower, herbaceous plant, harebell, tall bellflower, rampion bellflower, southern harebell, throatwort, willow bell, rampion, chimney bellflower, peach bell, nettle-leaved bellflower, chimney plant, peach bells, tussock bellflower, marsh bellflower, bluebell, clustered bellflower, herb, spreading bellflower, cup and saucer