Common name:
Nettle-leaved bellflower
Family:
Scientific name:
Campanula trachelium
Main flower color:
Range:
East and south England
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Woodland, scrubland, hedgerows, on calcareous soils
Flowers:
Clusters of up to four flowers at the tip and the upper leaf nodes. Flowers are white in bud, purple when open; a bell-shaped corolla with five spreading lobes, hairy on the inner surface. Below is a bristly green calyx, divided below the middle into five erect, triangular lobes
Leaves:
Nettle-like; ovate to triangular, with cordate bases. Stalked, and up to 10 cm long, with coarsely-toothed margins
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
