Balloon flower
പ്ലാറ്റികോഡൺ
Platycodon grandiflorus (Jacq.) A.DC.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 46 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Campanulaceae
Also called Balloon-flower
Formerly Campanula glauca, Campanula grandiflora, Platycodon autumnalis, Platycodon chinensis, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Siberia to Japan and ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, blueRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Japanese
- キキョウ
- Chinese
- 桔梗, 桔梗 额给哥坝（贵州黔东南）
- French
- Platycodon, Campanule à grandes fleurs
- Estonian
- suureõieline laikellukas
- Korean
- 도라지
- Finnish
- jalokello
- Russian
- Ширококолокольчик крупноцветковый
- Czech
- boubelka velkokvětá
- Indonesian
- Kikio
- Chinese (China)
- 桔梗
- Swedish
- praktklocka
- German
- Ballonblume
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Platycodon grandiflorus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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