Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, Méaracán gorm
Photographs: the Burren, Co. Clare

Harebell
Campanula rotundifolia
Méaracán gorm
Family: Campanulaceae

Flowering time: July-September. Perennial. Native.

The nodding pale-blue, bell shaped flowers can occasionally be white. Stem leaves are small and narrow, the upper leaves unstalked. The more/less round basal leaves usually wither early. A hairless plant with erect/ascending slender stems. Height 15-35 cm.

Most frequent in west and north-west Ireland on dry grassland, heaths and dunes. Also grows in rock seams in mountaineous areas.

Similar: Ivy-leaved Bellflower, Wahlenbergia hederacea is very small

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, Méaracán gorm

Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, Méaracán gorm
Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, Méaracán gorm

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