These are the tall bellflowers — Campanula americana, AKA American bellflower — that are native here. Not to be confused with the creeping bellflower — Campanula rapunculoides AKA European bellflower — that we fight and that our government tells us to fight. Those things are short, 1 to 3 feet tall. The tall bellflower are 3-6 feet tall. Perhaps you can tell from the camera angle.
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Bellflower.
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Short non-native plants
got no reason to live...?
I had what I presume to be the European Campanula in the small backyard garden when I moved into my house 30 years ago. Took years to get rid of that stuff. It spread like crazy. The English lady, avid gardener, in the adjacent lot railed against "that blue stuff", apparently introduced by a previous owner of my house.
How does he get the piano out there to tinkle as you stroll?
Creeping Bellflower: Introduced to the United States from Europe as an ornamental garden plant, it now chokes out native vegetation and is incredibly difficult to eradicate.
American Bellflower: A highly beneficial native plant. It supports specialized native pollinators like the bellflower resin bee, which relies completely on the plant for sustenance.
There are an awful lot of introduced species in the US, including most of what grows in home borders and gardens; some are invasive pests which out-compete the "native" species, although most are relatively innocuous.
Did you know that honeybees are not native to the US?
Not to be confused with the American blue bell
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