HAREBELL
SCOTTISH BLUEBELL
Campanula Rotundifolia
Bellflower Family [Campanulaceae] 
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Bellflower Family [Campanulaceae]
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petals
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| 15th July 2005, Warton Crag, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| A single pale to mid-blue flower droops atop a thin wirey stalk. Grows on walls, rocks, or grassland. Leaves at the base are rounder than stem leaves, but usually wither before the flowers appear. |
| 15th July 2005, Warton Crag, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| Wirey flowering stems branch off near the top. Stem leaves long and linear, peeling away from the stem at intervals. Colour a pale blue once fuly opened (deep blue in un-opened flower). |
| 27th July 2004, Marsden, West Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| Stems and leaves hardly visible when growing in grass. |
| 27th July 2004, Marsden, West Yorkshire. | Photo: © RWD |
| The flowers are horn-shaped, only flaring nearer the ends where rounded notches give way to five petals. |
| 7th July 2006, flanks of Winder, Sedberg, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Each flower has one long central stigma which splits into three near the tip. |
| 3rd July 2010, Hare Parrock quarry, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| An un-ripe flower. The five sepals parallel to the flower. |
| 16th Aug 2010, Hightown, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| An un-opened deep-blue flower, deeply fluted until it fully unfolds. |
| 11th July 2005, Cumbria Coastal Way, near Cark. | Photo: © RWD |
| The five sepals at the rear are thin, pointed and angled backwards. The horn only starts flaring outwards after the five pointed petals are resolved into separate entities. |
| 16th Aug 2010, Hightown, Sefton Coast, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
| Deep within the flower are curled ribbon-shaped lilac-coloured strips, most likely anthers bearing pollen. |
| 3rd July 2010, Hare Parrock quarry, Silverdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
| The thin grass-like leaves peel away from the stem at regular intervals. |
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Confusingly, in Scotland this flower is called Easily confused with : Peach-leaved Bellflower, but Harebell has long linear leaves like those of Purple Toadflax whereas Peach-leaved Bellflower has very shorter wider. Also, the open end of the bell is much wider on Peach-leaved Bellflower more like that of a loudspeaker cone than a tuba. Also, the stigma splits into three much deeper into the bell than it does in Harebell where the stigma splits into three much nearer the end. There are several subspecies recognised, and some that may yet to be resolved. Ssp rotundifolia and Ssp montana which occupies mostly upland areas. The photographs above may represent any number of these subspecies. Harebell is almost ubiquitous, occupying every part of Britain avoiding only parts of Devon & Cornwall, the far North of Scotland and the Middle Level Navigations and Fens. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
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Bellflower Family [Campanulaceae]
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