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Adenophora liliifolia |
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| Common name |
ladybells |
| Family |
campanulaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
blue (June) |
| Size |
2 ft |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
Pretty bellflowers on upright stalks. Too bad the plant wants to conquer the world by root - we grow it in a large tub to contain its roots. Our plant may in fact be the similar Campanula rapunculoides - I intend to find out by applying this test, taken from the Gardens North website:
About 40 species of hardy, summer-blooming plants native to Eurasia and Japan, similar to Campanula because of their nodding, blue, bell-shaped flowers. For full sun or part shade in average garden soils. Adenophora and Campanula are often confused Here is a simple test for distinguishing the two. Take a flower and gently pull off the petals, leaving the style standing in the center. You will be left holding the base of the flower with a bumpy appendage (the ovary) in the middle and the style sticking straight up out of the center. VERY CAREFULLY peel off the outside of the bumpy appendage, leaving the style standing. If underneath, all you see is a flat base to which the style is attached, then you have a campanula. If, however, you see, after the peeling, another bulb-like appendage surrounding the style, then you have an adenophora. An easy way to rogue out all those imposters!
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: side garden, berm About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| anthony | Dec 29, 2005 | hi again..i had some ladybells in the ground in good ol' santa cruz, ca. this past year. a month after planting them they died, do the come back up in the springtime? or are they gone for good?..........is my question
I'm not the best source of information on gardening in mild climates. In my zone 6 garden, the ladybells die back in late fall, and return in spring. |
| Penny Baker | Jul 23, 2006 | No question, just thought you'd like to know, I found your information quite helpful to me in identifying a plant that showed up amongst some rasberry plants i transplanted. And they come back every year. I am in garden zone 1. Yes, that's right. I live in North Pole, Alaska. So, they will grow in cold climates and return. thank-you for your inforamtion. |
| mongobooo1313 | Jul 25, 2006 | Thank you sooo much for that fabulous picture of the Lady Bell (Adenophora lilifolia). I have this growing all over my yard (yes, it's trying to take over!), and thought at first it was Deadly Nightshade. Now I can stop pulling it all out, and let it do it's thing to fill in my puny garden!
Thanks again!
Wendy Miller
Tacoma, WA |
| AE | Jul 14, 2008 | I just bought an Adenophora "Amethyst". I live in Zone 5-6. Wondering if any body has info on it's performance in this zone. Will it come back?
thanks |
| Sandy | Aug 01, 2009 | I really don't remember purchasing and planting Adenophora lilifolia, but it is everywhere! I can't keep it out of my gardens, as it seems to invade everything. I have noticed it growing in the woods at least a quarter mile from our house, so I'm wondering if I did plant it years ago and forgot I did so and it spread that far, or if what's coming into my gardens is creeping in from the woods? Short of napalm, I guess it's here to stay. Much like the oregano I planted about 12 years ago. I'm sure it's already traveled to surrounding states.
I suspect that my plants were actually Campanula rapunculoides, and that you have the same thing. The true adenophora is reportedly not nearly as aggressive. |
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