Seasonal Wild Flowers

Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

Campanulaceae

Bluebell in the far North and Scotland

July to November

It is found throughout the country except for parts of the

far Southwest, the far Southeast and the East Midlands.

See the BSBI distribution map for Harebell

It grows in dry, open, unfertilised places, such as,

grassland, dunes, rocks and walls, and by paths,

roads and railways.

Harebell is a native, very attractive, rhizomatous, perennial

herb, growing up to 50cm.

Flowers are various shades of pale blue, on nodding spikes.

The flowers are made up of 5 fused petals, which form a

bell-shaped funnel 2 to 3 cm long.

There is a distinct 3 lobed white stigma and 5 small

stamens.

The triangular base of the stamens protects the nectuaries.

Stem leaves and thin and linear, and may disappear before

flowering.

Harebell beside the Lancaster canal

Nodding, hanging habit

Stigma, triangular base of stamens

Stigma and stamens

Toothed, spreading sepals

Harebell on wall, Lancaster