Nettle-leaved Bellflower
Campanula trachelium
Nettle-leaved Bellflowers are Old World natives best known in renaissance era Britain as the original Canterbury Bell.
The Bellflowers are an enormous genus native to Britain and Europe. Most were common in America by the nineteenth century and Bernard McMahon offered nine species in 1806, including the Nettle-leaved. It was also once known as Throatwort and Bats-in-the-Hawkesort, but was best known in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as the original Canterbury Bell. This name evoked the ringing horse bells of pilgrims riding through the fields of Campanula trachelium as they traveled to Canterbury.
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