Harebell
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Campanulales Family: Campanulaceae Genus: Campanula Species: C. rotundifolia
Binomial name
Campanula rotundifolia L.

The Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) is a short to medium, slender, hairless perennial. The root leaves are roundish and wither early. The leaves on the stem are linear, the upper ones being unstalked. The flowers are blue, 15 mm long and on long thin stalks and in loose clusters. The petal lobes are short. Harebells flower between July and October and are found on dry grassland and heaths in Britain and throughout Northern Europe. In Scotland, it was often known in the past as the Bluebell, whereas elsewhere, "bluebell" is used for Hyacinthoides non-scriptus. Download high resolution version (480x640, 76 KB) Harebells growing in Trent Park in North London. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Brunoniaceae Campanulaceae Goodeniaceae Pentaphragmataceae Sphenocleaceae Stylidiceae or Stylidiaceae Source: ITS 34468 2002-05-29 The Campanulales are an order of the subclass Asteridae in the class Magnoliopsida flowering plants. ... Genera The Campanulaceae family contains several dozen genera in the Campanulales order, mostly herbs and shrubs, including the following: Asyneuma Asyneura Brighamia Campanula inc bellflower harebell Campanulastrum Centropogon Clermontia Cyanea Delissea Downingia (calicoflower) Gadellia Githopsis (bluecup) Heterocodon Hippobroma Howellia Isotoma Jasione Legenere false Venuss looking glass Legousia inc. ... Species See text Campanula is one of two genera of bell-flowers in the family Campanulaceae, the other being Campanulastrum. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... A Red Valerian, a perennial plant. ... A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... An Inner Mongolia Grassland. ... Heaths are anthropogenic habitats found primarily in northern and western Europe, where they have been created by thousands of years of human clearance of natural forest vegetation by grazing and burning on mainly infertile acidic soils. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe and a constituent nation of the United Kingdom. ... Binomial name Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L.) Chouard, 1934 The Common Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta, sometimes Endymion non-scriptus or Scilla non-scripta) is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial. ...

Harebell is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Ingrailed Clay. A larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians). ... Super Families Butterflies Hesperioidea Papilionoidea Moths Micropterigoidea Heterobathmioidea Eriocranioidea Acanthopteroctetoidea Lophocoronoidea Neopseustoidea Mnesarchaeoidea Hepialoidea Nepticuloidea Incurvarioidea Palaephatoidea Tischeriodea Simaethistoidea Tineoidea Gracillarioidea Yponomeutoidea Gelechioidea Zygaenoidea Sesioidea Cossoidea Tortricoidea Choreutoida Urodoidea Galacticoidea Schreckensteinioidea Epermenioidea Pterophoroidea Aluctoidea Immoidea Axioidea Hyblaeoidea Thyridoidea Whalleyanoidea Pyraloidea Mimallonoidea Lasiocampoidea Geometroidea Drepanoidea Bombycoidea Calliduloidae Hedyloidea Noctuoidea Families About... Binomial name Diarsia mendica Fabricius, 1775 The Ingrailed Clay (Diarsia mendica) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ...

In Roman catholic communities, the Harebell is dedicated to Saint Dominic. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Dominic de Guzman - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ...

Reference

The Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe; by R and A Fitter; publisher Collins 1974

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