Seasonal Wild Flowers

Cornish Bellflower

Campanula alliariifolia

Ivory Bells

Campanulaceae

July to September

The garden plant is found throughout the country.

Naturalised plants have been found mainly in the

Southwest, the South and the Southeast.

See the BSBI distribution map for Cornish Bellflower

It grows on banks and rough ground, especially by

railways.

It is a neophyte thought to have been first naturalised

in Cornwall and is spreading eastwards along the

railways.

Cornish Bellflower is a, deciduous, vigorous,

clump-forming, perennial herb, growing to 70cm.

Flowers are white, bell-shaped and up to 2cm.

There is a pronounced 3-lobed stigma.

Sepals are triangular and pointed.

Basal leaves are heart-shaped, toothed and up to 8cm.

Cornish Bellflower, Crewkerne statiom

, Somerset

Flower spike, pointed sepals

3-lobed stigma and remains of stamens

Lower leaves