Harebell

Harebell, or Hairbell, the blue-bell of Scotland (Campanula rotundifolia), a common wild flower of dry and sandy spots in northern regions.

It has a perennial slender rhizome bearing petiolate roundish radical leaves from which it gets its name, though the more prominent cauline leaves are sub-sessile and linear. Its slightly drooping flowers on their slender hair-like stalks form a paniculate cyme; its superior calyx has five small erect sepals, and its pretty pale violet-blue bell-shaped corolla has five slightly recurved acute lobes. There are Ave epigynous distinct stamens with short filaments and linear anthers, and a capsule opening by pores near its base.