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| Life form: |
| Perennial, taproot short. |
| Stems: |
| Height 25–80 cm, usually branched at the top with a sparse inflorescence, slightly hairy, basal part often reddish |
Leaves: |
| Basal leaves short-stalked, elongated spatulate, usually withered by flowering time. Stem leaves alternate, stalkless and linear. Blade entire or with shallowly rounded teeth. (crenate). |
| Flowers: |
| Corolla bell-shaped, narrow-based, 5-lobed halfway (longer than broad), fused, erect, 20–25 mm long, violet to blue-violet, rarely white in colour. Inflorescence branching, corymbose. |
| Flowering Period: |
| July-August |
| Fruits: |
| Capsule, strongly veined, erect |
| Habitat: |
| Pastureland, meadows, farmland, settlements |
Derivation of the botanical name:
Campanula is diminutive of Late Latin campāna, bell (New Latin: a little bell)
patula, from patulus, "spreading", meaning: spread out, open wide.
- The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy.
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