Ivydene Gardens Adder's Tongue to Borage Wild Flower Families Gallery:
Bellflower Family

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Bellflower Family:-

The Bellflowers are "perennials with alternate undivided leaves, distinctive for their stalked bellshaped flowers, the corolla usually blue, with 5 short lobes; persisting above the globular fruits; stamens 5; style 1; seeds numerous." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978

Bellflower Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Canterbury Bell

Campanula medium

May-July

It grows on stony, rocky and bushy slopes, at an altitude of 0–1,500 metres (0–4,900 ft) above sea level. In gardens, they are best in massed planting in borders or among shrubs. It prefers cool or warm zones; not suitable for the tropics or hot, dry regions. Seeds take 14-21 days to germinate. The plant thrives in lightly shaded to sunny locations in well-drained soil. Canterbury Bells grows nicely in flower beds, borders, and containers. Keep well watered.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Clustered Bellflower

Campanula glomerata

June onwards

A perennial herb of calcareous grassland, scrub, open woodland, cliffs and sand dunes. It is most frequent on chalk and oolite, and curiously absent from apparently suitable habitat on other limestones and base-rich substrates. It also occurs as a garden escape on roadsides and waste ground. 0-355 m (Oddendale, Westmorland).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Different Flower Colour

Different Flower Colour

Different Flower Colour

Different Flower Colour

Cornish Bellflower

(Ivory Bells)

Campanula alliariifolia

June-July

Open scrub and conifer forests, occasionally on cliffs but frequently on steep banks[271]. Naturalized on banks and rough ground, especially by railways, in southern England.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Creeping Bellflower

(Rampion Bellflower)

Campanula rapunculoides

July-September

Hedges, Wasteland and Gardens (widespread but local in hedge-banks and waste-places, usually in or near gardens)

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from Hythe in Kent

Form from Sussex

Giant Bellflower

Campanula latifolia

July-September

A large perennial herb of damp woodland, wooded riversides and hedgerows, usually on fertile, neutral or calcareous soils. It is also grown in gardens, occurring as an established alien on waste ground, roadsides and hedge banks. Generally lowland, but reaching 390 m at Ingleborough (Mid-W. Yorks.).

Flower

Flowers on 17 July

Foliage on 17 July

Form on 17 July

Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

July onwards

A rhizomatous perennial herb of dry, open, infertile habitats including grassland, fixed dunes, rock ledges, roadsides and railway banks. It tolerates a wide range of soil pH, being found on both mildly acidic and calcareous substrates, and heavy-metal tolerant races are known. 0-1160 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth).

Flower

Flowers from Kemsing on 11 August

Foliage

Form from Kemsing in Kent on 11 August

Ivy-leaved Bellflower

Wahlenbergia hederacea

July-August

A small, low-growing perennial herb found in damp, wet or boggy places on acidic soils, occurring on heaths, heathy pastures, moors, open woodland and Salix carr, and by streams and in flushes. In Ireland, it is most frequent beside streams and is absent from pastures. It prefers areas with moving, rather than standing, water. 0-485 m (Killakee, Co. Dublin).

Flower

Flowers from Bethesden on 1 September

Foliage

Form on 1 September

Nettle-leaved Bellflower

Campanula trachelium

July-September

A large perennial herb, found as a native on dry, base-rich, usually calcareous soils in woodland, scrubby grassland and hedge banks; in Ireland it is also reported from river banks and swamp woodland. It is also grown in gardens, and occurs as a naturalised alien on a wider range of soils and habitats. Generally lowland, but reaching 320 m in Monk`s Dale (Derbys.).

Flower from Oxwich Bay on 10 July

Flowers from Oxwich Bay on 10 July

Foliage from Oxiwch on 10 July

Form from Rochester in Kent

Rampion Bellflower

Campanula rapunculus

June-July

A perennial herb found naturalised in rough grassland and on roadsides, railway banks and in quarries. It also occurs as a relic of cultivation. Reproduction is from seed and rhizome fragments. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Round-Headed Rampion

Phyteuma tenerum

(Phyteuma fistulosum, Phyteuma cordifolium, Phyteuma orbiculare)

July-August

A perennial herb of species-rich chalk grassland, open scrub, earthworks and verges. It is tolerant of grazing, and seems to prefer grazed areas, but also grows in neighbouring ungrazed grassland. Propagation is mostly by seed but it also spreads by stoloniferous growth. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Sheepsbit

Jasione montana

May onwards

A biennial herb of acidic, shallow, well-drained soils. It occurs on sea-cliffs, in maritime grasslands and heaths and on stabilised sand dunes, and inland on heathland, stone walls, hedge banks and railway cuttings. Propagation is by seed and disturbed, open sites and recently burnt ground are frequently colonised. 0-955 m (Mt Brandon, S. Kerry).

Flower from Cliffs of Moher on 11 June

Flowers

Foliage from County Clare

Form from Cliffs of Moher of County Clare in Eire on 11 June

Spiked Rampion

Phyteuma spicatum

June-July

A long-lived perennial herb of damp, fertile, acid soils on road verges, streamsides and in coppiced woodland. Reproduction is by seed, which is long-lived, but recruitment at some sites is negligible. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage on 17 May

Form on 17 May

Spreading Bellflower

Campanula patula

June-July

A biennial herb of dry, well-drained, sunny sites on fairly infertile sandy or gravelly soils. It is found in open woodland, on banks and rock outcrops. Reproduction is by seed, which needs disturbed sites for germination, but which is long-lived, allowing the plant to reappear after long absences. Lowland.

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

Venus's Looking-Glass

Legousia hybrida

May-August

This annual of arable fields is usually found on calcareous soils, especially on chalk. Outside its core areas, it occurs as a casual in disturbed sites such as motorway embankments. Lowland.

Flower from Strood in Kent in July

Flowers

Foliage from Strood in July

Form