Flora of New Zealand Series

harebell

c. 40 cm long. Basal lvs and those on short vegetative shoots with long slender petioles. Lamina 1-2.7 × 1-3 cm, broad-ovate, suborbicular to reniform, usually hairy towards base, crenate; base subcordate to prominently widely cordate; apex obtuse or nearly so; main cauline lvs 2-4 cm × 1-5 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, entire, sessile or shortly petiolate. Fls nodding, in open, sparingly branched racemes. Pedicels glabrous, slender, > setaceous bracts. Calyx lobes subulate or setaceous, 3-8 mm long. Corolla 1.5-2 cm long, campanulate, deep blue; lobes short and broad. Stigmas 3. Capsule pendent, 3-celled, 5-7 mm diam., ± turbinate or subglobose, dehiscing at base.

N.: Wellington; S.: Nelson, Christchurch, Glencoe Stream near the Hermitage (Mt Cook), Dunedin.

N. temperate 1958

Grassy roadside banks, retaining walls, pavement gutters, occasional.

FL Dec-Feb.

Perennial with slender rhizomes and weak puberulent or glabrous stems to

Harebell is cultivated in rock gardens and on retaining walls. There are a number of subspp., but N.Z. specimens of wild plants are so few and incomplete that it is not possible to name them. C. rotundifolia is the bluebell of Scotland.