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.
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.
[edit] Forms
The species is very variable in form.
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.
Avon Park Harebells [English]: Crotalaria avonensis
Avon Park Rabbit-Bells [English]: Crotalaria avonensis
Avon Park Rattlebox [English]: Crotalaria avonensis
Avondale Chinese Redbud [English]: Cercis chinensis 'Avondale' ...
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..
Although it is best known today as English Bluebells, it is sometimes called Harebells though that is a name I'd apply only to a campanula, the which are in turn sometimes called Bluebells of Scotland.
Campanula rotundifolia. Harebells.
There are more
Harebell Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
 See also: Harebell, May, Bells, Campanula, Bellflower
  
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