title: Campanula barbata
text: # Campanula barbata
  
  Campanula barbata, common name bearded bellflower, is a perennial flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae.
  
  ## Description
  
  Campanula barbata can reach a height of 20–30 centimetres (7.9–11.8 in). This plant produces a small basal rosette of grayish-green leaves, simple, lanceolate with dentate margins and alternate. It has racemes of nodding, pale blue to deep blue campanulate flowers, which are hairy inside (hence the Latin name barbata, meaning bearded). They bloom from June to August.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species is native to Norway, France, Italy and Central Europe.
  
  ## Habitat
  
  Campanula barbata can be found in mountain regions at an elevation 1,100–2,600 metres (3,600–8,500 ft) above sea level.
  
  