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Campanula rapunculoides L.

Acker-Glockenblume (DE), Creeping Bellflower, Creeping Bellflower (EN), European bellflower

Climate known 68 photographs
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Summary

Campanula rapunculoides, known by the common names creeping bellflower, rampion bellflower, rover bellflower, garden bluebell, creeping bluebell, purple bell, garden harebell, and creeping campanula, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Campanula, belonging to the family Campanulaceae. Native to central and southern Europe and west Asia, in some parts of North America it is an extremely invasive species.

Text from Wikipedia, “Campanula rapunculoides”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Campanula

Campanula is the type genus of the Campanulaceae family of flowering plants. Campanula are commonly known as bellflowers and take both their common and scientific names from the bell-shaped flowers—campanula is Latin for "little bell".

Text from Wikipedia, “Campanula”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Campanulaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Denmark, Finland, Norway +37
Wild records
515 in range· 192 open

At a glance

Warmest month
22°C
Jul, mean day; nights 14 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
755mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 84 mm (CHELSA)
Light
4–35DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 755 mm a year, wettest July at 84 mm, driest February at 42 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -15.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Campanula contracta Mutel, 1835; Campanula lunariaefolia Willd.; Campanula lunariaefolia Willd. ex Schult.; Campanula lunariifolia Rchb., 1831; Campanula morifolia Salisb. and 10 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (567 mm of 755 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 19.8 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to June.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 755 mm a year, wettest July at 84 mm, driest February at 42 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

755 mm a year at the habitat, 567 mm of it May to December. Wettest month July at 84 mm, driest February at 42 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 561 mm to 1132 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 1, the highest 90th-percentile month 38).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -15.5 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -15.5 °C, the absolute minimum -25.7 °C, about 121 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 32.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -4.6 °C in January (across the envelope cells -11.5 °C to 0.6 °C), warmest day 22.1 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -15.5 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 2 °C in Jan to 22 °C in Jul; mean night from -5 °C in Jan to 14 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 755 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 395 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -25.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 32.2 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost32.2° 99th-percentile day (undated)-25.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 4–35RH 58–69 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 395 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C2 / -5–53 / -5–67 / 1–1012 / 7–1417 / 14–1920 / 17–2222 / 20–2421 / 19–2418 / 14–1913 / 8–146 / 0–92 / -4–6
Night °C-5 / -12–1-4 / -11–1-1 / -7–33 / -1–58 / 5–911 / 9–1314 / 12–1514 / 11–1510 / 6–126 / 2–81 / -5–4-3 / -10–1
Rain mm51 / 28–8342 / 27–6650 / 32–8345 / 32–7865 / 44–10875 / 62–12084 / 68–11579 / 62–12172 / 51–10270 / 38–11064 / 38–10158 / 36–92
DLI5 / 2–910 / 7–1517 / 15–2327 / 25–3134 / 32–3635 / 33–3834 / 32–3728 / 25–3119 / 16–2311 / 8–166 / 3–104 / 1–7
RH %68 / 62–7265 / 61–6963 / 59–6459 / 57–6158 / 55–6159 / 57–6159 / 57–6261 / 57–6263 / 60–6465 / 62–6768 / 64–7069 / 64–72

Each figure is the median across the 395 grid cells holding the 511 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 814:3931 (49.275, 16.575). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -25.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -15.5 °C, 99th-percentile day 32.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 395 distinct grid cells holding the 511 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 814:3931 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 49.50_16.875, lapse-corrected -93 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 324 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDenmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Krym, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Iran, Turkey· introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward I., Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Mexico Central
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker49.787, 9.928 · in the densest population, 221 records (43% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 515 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 192 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 997 km away. 257 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 515 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Patrice Dupont, some rights reserved (CC BY) (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Campanula rapunculoides, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Animation of plant development
Przemysław Prusinkiewicz, Mark Hammel, Eric Mjolsness (1993)
Phenolic Compounds in Soil as Influenced by the Growth of Different Plant Species
David Whitehead, Hazel Dibb, Roy D. Hartley (1982) · Journal of Applied Ecology
The role of fructan in flowering of Campanula rapunculoides
Rudy Vergauwen, Wim Van den Ende, André Van Laere (2000) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Phenotypic plasticity in the expression of self-incompatibility in Campanula rapunculoides
Donna W. Vogler, Chandreyee Manas Das, Andrew G. Stephenson (1998) · Heredity
The Potential for Mixed Mating in a Self‐Incompatible Plant
Donna W. Vogler, Andrew G. Stephenson (2001) · International Journal of Plant Sciences
Fructan 1-exohydrolase is associated with flower opening in Campanula rapunculoides
Katrien Le Roy, Rudy Vergauwen, Veerle Cammaer, Midori Yoshida (2007) · Functional Plant Biology

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Campanula 6 in the reference

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.