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A purple bell that rings only for bees, never your ears.
means A plant of the genus Campanula, bearing bell-shaped flowers usually in shades of blue or purple.
from A plain English compound of "bell" and "flower," naming the blossom for its obvious shape — a small ringing bell hung on a stem. The botanical name Campanula carries the same idea, from Late Latin campanula, "little bell," a diminutive of campana, "bell." So the English name simply translates the Latin into homegrown words: a flower shaped like a bell, by any tongue.
- genus name
- Campanula means little bell in Latin
- edible
- Leaves and flowers are tossed into salads
- folklore
- Once called fairy thimbles in old England
- alpine grit
- Some species cling to bare mountain rock
- rapid bloom
- Buds twist open in tidy clockwise spirals
for instance
campanula rotundifolia — common bellflower native to northern europe and north america, over 300 campanula species exist
bellflower creek — tributary of the san gabriel river in los angeles county, california