Campanula latifoliaL.

Giant Bellflowergiant bellflower

WFO wfo-0000827620 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Campanula latifolia, photographed by Анна Рыбакова
fig. a Анна Рыбакова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205741993
Campanula latifolia, photographed by pratvmvmbrosvm
fig. b pratvmvmbrosvm, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202120594
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. c Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197757913
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Nadezhda Kiseleva
fig. d Nadezhda Kiseleva, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194638772
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. e Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158375597
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. f Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146648997
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. g Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 146640085
Campanula latifolia, photographed by Yehor Yatsiuk
fig. h Yehor Yatsiuk, CC0 1.0 / obs. 143905432

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
5088036
Filed as
Campanula latifolia L.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Campanula latifolia is native: Altay, Iran, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Krym, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayIranKazakhstanNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeNepalPakistanWest HimalayaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyHungaryItalyKrymNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Campanula latifolia, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Kazakhstan KAZ
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Nepal NEP ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 252 in flower of 340 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Campanula latifolia observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 252 of 340 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,046 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.7 °C -10.8 °C 0.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.2 °C 22.2 °C 23.8 °C
Annual rainfall 577 mm 708 mm 1,904 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 92 mm 113 mm 345 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 2,046 research-grade observations of Campanula latifolia that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 17 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Campanula brunonis Wall.
  • Campanula eriocarpa M.Bieb.
  • Campanula latifolia f. alba Voss
  • Campanula latifolia f. macrantha (Fisch. ex Hornem.) Voss
  • Campanula latifolia var. canescens Trautv.
  • Campanula latifolia var. eriocarpa (M.Bieb.) Fisch. ex A.DC.
  • Campanula latifolia var. fimbriata K.Koch
  • Campanula latifolia var. intermedia Trautv.
  • Campanula latifolia var. leiocarpa Trautv.
  • Campanula latifolia var. macrantha (Fisch. ex Hornem.) Sims
  • Campanula latifolia var. macrantha (Fisch. ex Hornem.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold
  • Campanula macrantha Fisch. ex Hornem.
  • Campanula macrantha var. polyantha Hook.
  • Campanula megrelica Manden. & Kuth.
  • Campanula urticifolia All.
  • Drymocodon latifolius Fourr.
  • Trachelioides latifolia (L.) Opiz

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.