With bell-shaped, tubular or star-shaped flowers in shades of blue, white, pink and red, they have growth habits that range from low and creeping to tall and upright. There is enough diversity in the bellflower or Campanula clan to ring just about any gardener's chimes. Required fields are marked * Comment. Edible Campanula rapunculoides or creeping bellflower . The creeping bell flower may be a pest to the eyes of some, but in my eyes it is a boon. Creeping Bellflower by Zeynel Cebeci; CC BY-SA 4.0 While some consider creeping bellflower to be a highly invasive “weed,” as it self-seeds most readily and even a tiny fragment of its root will spawn a new plant, others find that its pale lavender flowers adorning tall stems are a welcome edible ornamental plant. Full sun to part shade. Campanula Rapunculus Campanula rapunculus , known as the rover bellflower, rampion bellflower or the Rapunzel bellflower is a biennial plant, with leaves growing the first year and flowers blooming in the second year. Its calcium rich leaves can be served in salads and the stems can be sautéed and and served as a side dish. An additional interesting fact about the trailing bellflower is that its leaves are edible and can be consumed in salads. Invasive tendencies and extreme hardiness mean lots of it will be available. as well as its root system. The whole plant is edible particularly at this time of the year (spring). ... More research shows the bellflower attracts pollinators and is an edible herb. Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) is wild, edible and nutritious food. Silver Springs Edible Garden Creeping Bellflower is an invasive plant that we'd rather not have in the garden. Wanted: Creeping Bellflower Creeping bellflower Campanula rapunculoides. Lilac spires of bellflowers to 1.2m in summer are very attractive to bees. I recently read Max Brooks’ page-turning unread romp, “World War Z.” The book is a mediation of what a global zombie plague, and our subsequent reaction to it, would look like. Flowers, leaves, young shoots, roots are edible. However, it is edible, so escaped individuals can be permanently disposed of. Creeping bellflower is a very attractive flower, and understandably popular in gardens, but it frequently escapes into disturbed sites such as roadsides and waste areas. Groundcover bellflower with edible shoots, leaves, flowers and nutty roots. In the book, infected victims don’t become zombies right away. Creeping Bellflower: The Zombie Weed by Rob Sproule. It looks like this: If you see it or suspect that you see it, haul it out. Spreads rapidly on rhizomes and produces deep, taproot-shaped tubers. Reader Interactions. Identify harebell via its pictures, habitat, height, flowers and leaves. 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