Harebell
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Common Harebell
Campanula rotundifolia L.
Other names: bluebell bellflower
Family: Campanulaceae, Harebell
Genus: Campanula ...
Wall Harebell
Scientific Name: Campanula portenschlagiana Schult.
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Bluebell, Harebell, Bluebell of Scotland
With more than 300 species of annuals, biennials and perennials, these are one of the most popular garden perennials. They range from diminutive, mounding rock garden plants to 6-foot spikes of color.
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This is a much loved plant that varies greatly in form. It has pretty, fresh green, rounded leaves.
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Commonly occurring on many of Michigan's dunes, though not restricted to them, the harebell flowers through much of the summer, creating bright splashes of blue on the dunes and beach landscape.
Harebells, also known as "Blue Bells of Scotland", are quite common from mid-summer to frost, from low meadows to high subalpine ridges. They are found in twos and threes or in large colonies that give a delicate blue/violet cast to meadows.
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Harebells are native to dry, nutrient-poor grassland and heaths in Britain, northern Europe, and North America. The plant often successfully colonises cracks in walls or cliff faces and dunes.
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The species is very variable in form.
"Did the harebell lose her girdle
to the lover bee?
Would the bee the harebell hallow
much as formerly?" -Emily Dickinson ...
30 (50)cm, Harebell, from the N hemisphere, with its delicate nodding, blue, bell shaped flowers in summer. Sunny to partially shaded spot in any well drained soil. VII-X.
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Common Names: Harebells, Wand Flowers, Fairy Wands, Fishing Wands.
History: The original form of Dierama pulcherrimum was found in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Among the most popular cultivated species are the harebell, or bluebell of Scotland (C. rotundifolia), native to Eurasia and North America, and the Canterbury bells (C. medium), native to S Europe.
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There are about 45 different species and several subspecies, including the northern European Campanula rotundifolia, commonly known as harebell in England and bluebell in Scotland where it grows in the wild, ...
Campanulaceae / Harebells American Bellflower (Campanulastrum americanum)
American Bellflower is also known as Tall Bellflower. Formerly considered to be Campanula americana. The Harebells family (Campanulaceae) is also known as Bluebells..
Carpathian Harebell, often found as the cultivar 'Blue Clips' in a perennial edging usage, is shown here in its species form in a crevice of a retaining wall, which demostrates its optimum performance under conditions of excellent drainage.
A dainty plant with harebell-like flowers with tails to them. Often called longspurs. Should be grown in the middle of the border so that the plants in front can hide untidy stems and bare ground after flowering, which takes place from May-June.
For edging along a path, the low growing Carpathian harebell (C. carpatica) is perfect. The cultivar 'Blue Clips' bears bright blue bells on 8-12" high plants over most of the summer.
 See also: Campanula, Pink, Orchid, May, Broom
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