Luontoportti

Also known as Harebell family. The Bellflower family includes 88 genera across the world, comprised of 2,500 species. In Finland there are 4 genera and 15 species, the most familiar of which are genus Campanula plants which include “real” bellflowers such as harebell. The family in Finland also includes a genuine water-plant, water lobelia, which is the only representative of genus Lobelia in the north. Many familiar ornamental lobelias nowadays form the Bellflower sub-family Lobelioideae, but they were previously classed in a family of their own.