Question: This flower appears to be Campanula punctata or spotted bellflower. It grows in my garden in Harrisville, NH. The Go …
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Question
This flower appears to be Campanula punctata or spotted bellflower. It grows in my garden in Harrisville, NH. The Go Botany key shows it growing in NH but in no neighboring state. However, it appears also in Connecticut. Why would the range be discontinuous?
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DavidBlair, this plant is not native to New England. Its sporadic distribution represents its random naturalizing from the garden setting to nearby landscapes. Often, species such as Campanula punctate do not have continuous distributions because they are not uniformly cultivated around the region. Best wishes.
