Common name:
Ivy-leaved bellflower
Family:
Scientific name:
Hesperocodon hederaceus
Synonym:
Wahlenbergia hederacea
Main flower color:
Range:
Wales and southwest England
Height:
A few cm - a creeping, prostrate species, with stems up to 20 cm long
Habitat:
Heaths and moors, often near streams and seeps
Flowers:
The pale blue corolla is relatively broad, tubular, opening to five triangular lobes, rounded at the tip, angled outwards at about 45 degrees. The green calyx, about one third of the corolla length, is divided to the base into five narrow lobes. Flowers are attached by long, slender, hairless pedicels
Leaves:
Hairless, light green, stalked, around 10 mm across; rounded to kidney-shaped, shallowly palmately lobed
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
