Wahlenbergia hederacea

Wahlenbergia hederacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Wahlenbergia
Species: W. hederacea
Binomial name
Wahlenbergia hederacea
(L.) Rchb.

Wahlenbergia hederacea, known as ivy-leaved bellflower,[1] is a delicate, creeping, patch-forming, hairless perennial herb; with stems to 20 cm, weak thread-like; leaves all long-stalked, rounded, palmately-lobed, rather ivy-shaped, pale green, 5–12 mm long and wide, bases cordate; flowers on fine stalks, 1–4 cm long, in leaf-axils, erect or inclined; calyx-teeth narrow, 2–3 mm long, longer than ovary; corolla bell-shaped with 5 short lobes, pale sky- blue, 6–10 mm long x 5–8 mm wide.[2]

Habitat

Moist tracks in woods, boggy moorland rivulets.

Distribution

Southern England, Kent to Cornwall, North West England, Wales, Western Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, North West Germany, Spain, Portugal.

References

  1. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  2. The Wild Flower Key, British Isles N.W. Europe, Francis Rose, WARNE, Published by the Penguin Group, 1991 reissue, ISBN 0-7232-2419-6

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