Unknown campanula?

[Claire Cockcroft]

This plant was grown from Betty Lowry's seed bank.  It looks like a campanula to me, but I've never seen "furry" leaves like these.  (Sorry the image is so poor.  I should have taken a picture of the rosette last year!)  It made it through two winters before flowering for the first time this spring.  Any ideas?
...Claire

   

[Maggi Young]

Very large calyx should tell us something - but what!!

[arisaema]

If it's not the extremely variable Campanula pallida I'm tempted to suggest Symphyandra...

[Claire Cockcroft]

The flower is about 2 cm long.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Since the leaves were fuzzy, I figured it might come from Greece or other hot environs.  Could it be Campanula rupestris?
...Claire

[MarcR]

Claire,

It looks like C. zangezura offered by Annies annuals.  You can look and compare.

Marc

[Maggi Young]

Since the leaves were fuzzy, I figured it might come from Greece or other hot environs.  Could it be Campanula rupestris?
...Claire

   Could be - this link  shows it well.... http://www.stridvall.se/flowers/gallery/Campanulaceae/338_03

[MarcR]

Maggi,

Both C. rupestris and C. alpestris are deep violet or purple, with no medial vein on the petals.  Claire's query is pale blue with a darker medial vein or stripe.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Looking into my records, I see that Campanula andrewsii ssp. andrewsii and C. andrewsii ssp. hirsutula are listed in Betty Lowry's seed bank.  Would either fit this plant?  The tomentose leaves match pictures on-line.

The source was NS 596 and NS 619, from 1991.  (Northside Crete/Greece Collections)

Seed sown 2019

[MarcR]

Claire,

Both ssp are pubescent and both have the medial band.  ssp hirsutula is closer in color.  Ssp andrewsii is more pink, as is the basic specie.

Marc