Tall Bellflower
Campanulastrum americanum
Blue and purple flowers from June into September, worked by leafcutter bees and cuckoo leafcutter bees. It grows wild in 40 of Arkansas’s 75 counties.
- Light
- Part shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 4.5 ft to 6 ft tall, 1.5 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue and purple, Jun to Sep
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Roots; wants 8 in of soil
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Bees
- 9 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Leafcutter bee (Megachile campanulae), Cuckoo leafcutter bee (Coelioxys modestus)
Grows well with
New England Aster
Swamp Azalea
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Calico Aster
Narrowleaf Sunflower
Fragrant Sumac
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Facts from the Quercus record for Campanulastrum americanum.