Some similarities to : Clustered Bellflower but that has striking violet flowers that are clustered together at the top without flower stalks.

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature : The very wide bowl-shape (almost washing-up-bowl like) shape of the 'bell'.

No relation to : Peach [a plant with similar name].

Grown in gardens, but readily escapes to woods and scrubs. A blue to pale blue shade, azure perhaps. The only bellflower to have such a very wide open bell end in relation to the length of the bell, and a stigma that splits into three for over ²/₃^rds of its length.

VIOLDELPHIN Violdelphin is the anthocyanin that colours the blue flowers from the Campanula genus. It consists of an Anthocyanidin (Delphinidin) shown in blue, two para-HydroxyBenzoyl (4-HydroxyBenzoyl, derived from 4-HydrozyBenzoic Acid) moieties (shown in green) and four sugar units shown in red comprising three glucosyl units and one rhamnosyl unit. Compare this with Malonylawobanin anthocyanin found in Bluebells. The p-hydroxybenzoyl and sugar unit comprise a chromone which influences the light absorption spectrum and hence perceived colour. (In Malonylawobanin p-Hydroxybenzoyl moieties are absent, replaced instead by a Coumaryl unit). Violdelphin is also found in the blue flowers of Delphinium hybridum, a horticultural plant or Canterbury-bells (Campanula medium).