Southern Harebell

(Campanula divaricata)

 

Color Photograph: © by and courtesy of Thomas G. Barnes @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database

Line Drawing: Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Second Edition.

 

Southern Harebell (Campanula divaricata)

Identification: Flowers small with 5 petals fused into a bell-shaped corolla with the apices of the petals pointed and spreading outward. Flowers pale blue, arranged on thin horizontal branches arising from the leaf axils. Stem thin. Leaves blade-shaped, widest in the middle, and with coarsely toothed outer margins. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.

Distribution: Kentucky, West Virginia, and western Maryland, southward to Georgia and Alabama.

Habitat: Southern Harebell is found in dry woods.

Flowering period: July to September.

Southern Harebell (Campanula divaricata)

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The small, pale blue flowers arranged on horizontal branches from the leaf axils will readily identify Southern Harebell.

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