Name * Email * Website. Prefers summer moisture. A lesser known wild edible, creeping bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides) has become one of my favorite spring greens. Invasive tendencies and extreme hardiness mean lots of it will be available. Creeping bellflower is a very attractive flower, and understandably popular in gardens, but it frequently escapes into disturbed sites such as roadsides and waste areas. In the book, infected victims don’t become zombies right away. Full sun to part shade. Required fields are marked * Comment. Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) is wild, edible and nutritious food. Lilac spires of bellflowers to 1.2m in summer are very attractive to bees. With bell-shaped, tubular or star-shaped flowers in shades of blue, white, pink and red, they have growth habits that range from low and creeping to tall and upright. An additional interesting fact about the trailing bellflower is that its leaves are edible and can be consumed in salads. The creeping bell flower may be a pest to the eyes of some, but in my eyes it is a boon. Campanula Rapunculus Campanula rapunculus , known as the rover bellflower, rampion bellflower or the Rapunzel bellflower is a biennial plant, with leaves growing the first year and flowers blooming in the second year. Edible Campanula rapunculoides or creeping bellflower . ... More research shows the bellflower attracts pollinators and is an edible herb. Your email address will not be published. Flowers, leaves, young shoots, roots are edible. Silver Springs Edible Garden It looks like this: If you see it or suspect that you see it, haul it out. However, it is edible, so escaped individuals can be permanently disposed of. Spreads rapidly on rhizomes and produces deep, taproot-shaped tubers. There is enough diversity in the bellflower or Campanula clan to ring just about any gardener's chimes. Groundcover bellflower with edible shoots, leaves, flowers and nutty roots. Creeping Bellflower: The Zombie Weed by Rob Sproule. The whole plant is edible particularly at this time of the year (spring). Its calcium rich leaves can be served in salads and the stems can be sautéed and and served as a side dish. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. I recently read Max Brooks’ page-turning unread romp, “World War Z.” The book is a mediation of what a global zombie plague, and our subsequent reaction to it, would look like. Edible Campanula rapunculoides or creeping bellflower. I frequently eat the young leaves, although I’ve heard great reports on the tasty thick rhizome it produces. Creeping Bellflower, a European import popular in the garden industry, readily escapes cultivation and can quickly become invasive, spreading both from seed (up to 15,000 per plant!) Reader Interactions. 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