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69.) CAMPANULACEAE - Bellflower family

CAMPANULACEAE

  • Campanula patula L. (Spreading Bellflower) Woodland
  • Campanula persicifolia L. (Peach-leaved Bellflower) / General
  • Campanula medium L. (Canterbury-bells) General
  • Campanula glomerata L. (Clustered Bellflower) - Grassland
  • Campanula pyramidalis L. (Chimney Bellflower) General
  • Campanula portenschlagiana Schult. (Adria Bellflower) / General
  • Campanula poscharskyana Degen (Trailing Bellflower) / General
  • Campanula latifolia L. (Giant Bellflower) Woodland
  • Campanula trachelium L. (Nettle-leaved Bellflower) / Woodland
  • Campanula rapunculoides L. (Creeping Bellflower) General
  • Campanula cochleariifolia Lam. (Fairy's-thimble - Stace, NBN, Fairies Thimbles - old flora, Earleaf Bellflower - Wikipedia, Dwarf Bellflower - Gardenia) 1980 General
  • Campanula rotundifolia L. (ssp. rotundifolia - Stace, NBN) (Harebell) / Grassland
  • Legousia hybrida (L.) Delarbre (Venus's-looking-glass) General
  • Jasione montana L. (Sheep's-bit) 1918 Grassland
  • Lobelia erinus L. (Garden Lobelia) / General

Legousia hybrida (L.) Delarbre (Venus's-looking-glass) - found at Avonmouth Docks in 1961 by N.Y. Sandwith.

Campanula latifolia found by R.D. Randall BRLSI

Campanula persicifolia white form found by R.D. Randall BRLSI

Jasione montana (Sheep's-bit) Is mentioned by H.O. Stephens (1835) to occur on Durdham Down but this was almost certainly a mistake for Devil's-bit Scabious (Succisa pratensis).

Adria Bellflower

Not quite as frequent as Trailing Bellflower and more often found on Brick Walls.