Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Campanulaceae
Genus:	Campanula
Species:	C. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Campanula rotundifolia L. 1753
Synonyms
Synonymy Campanula allophylla Raf. ex A.DC. Campanula angustifolia Lam. Campanula antirrhina Schleich. Campanula asturica Podlech Campanula bielzii Schur Campanula bocconei Vill. Campanula caballeroi Sennen & Losa Campanula chinganensis A.I.Baranov Campanula confertifolia (Reut.) Witasek Campanula decloetiana Ortmann Campanula heterodoxa Vest ex Schult. Campanula hostii Baumg. Campanula inconcessa Schott, Nyman & Kotschy Campanula juncea Hill Campanula lanceolata Lapeyr. Campanula langsdorffiana (A. DC.) Trautv. Campanula legionensis Pau Campanula lobata Schloss. & Vuk. Campanula lostrittii Ten. Campanula minor Lam. Campanula minuta Savi Campanula paenina Reut. ex Tissière Campanula pennica Reut. ex Payot Campanula pennina Reut. Campanula pinifolia Uechtr. ex Pancic Campanula pseudovaldensis Schur Campanula solstitialis A.Kern. Campanula tenuifolia Hoffm. Campanula tenuifolia Mart. Campanula tracheliifolia Losa ex Sennen Campanula urbionensis Rivas Mart. & G.Navarro Campanula wiedmannii Podlech Depierrea campanuloides Schltdl.

Campanula rotundifolia (harebell) is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. It has a circumpolar distribution in the Northern Hemisphere, from about latitude 40° N to about 70° N, extending in Europe from the north Mediterranean to the arctic.

In Scotland, it is often known as the bluebell. Elsewhere in Britain, bluebell refers to Hyacinthoides non-scripta, and in North America, bluebell refers to Virginia bluebell. Campanula rotundifolia was historically also known by several other names including blawort, hair-bell, lady's thimble, witch's bells, and witch's thimbles.

Campanula rotundifolia is a perennial species of flowering plant, a slender, prostrate to erect herb, spreading by seed and rhizomes. The basal leaves are long-stalked, rounded to heart-shaped, usually slightly toothed, with prominent hydathodes, and often wither early. Leaves on the flowering stems are long and narrow and the upper ones are unstemmed. The inflorescence is a panicle or raceme, with 1 – many flowers borne on very slender pedicels. The flowers usually have five (occasionally 4, 6 or 7) pale to mid violet-blue petals fused together into a bell shape, about 12–30 mm (0.5–1.2 in) long and five long, pointed green sepals behind them. Plants with pale pink or white flowers may also occur. The petal lobes are triangular and curve outwards. The seeds are produced in a capsule about 3–4 mm (0.1–0.2 in) diameter and are released by pores at the base of the capsule. Seedlings are minute, but established plants can compete with tall grass. As with many other Campanulas, all parts of the plant exude white latex when injured or broken.

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