Campanula1 Gallon Campanula is one of several genera of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae with the common name bellflower. It takes both its common and its scientific name from its bell shaped flowerscampanula is Latin for "little bell" Campanula persicifolia is a rosette forming, upright, glabrous perennial that typically grows on stiff sturdy stems to 1 1 2 3' tall. It is native to open woods, shrubby slopes and mountain meadows in Europe and Asia.