Authors: L.
The common harebell is one of the best known of all bellflowers but surprisingly
neglected as a garden plant. Tufted to colony-forming it spreads by slender rhizomes. Basal leaves rounded to kidney-shaped, shallowly cordate, crenate, often but not invariably withered at flowering time. Stem leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear. Flowers nodding to pendent, 1.2-2cm long, sometimes to 2.5cm blue, sometimes white, one to several on erect wiry stems 15-25cm or more in height. Northern temperate zones and subarctic, in grassland and stony places. Very variable in leaf and flower size and height, and number of flowers per stem, etc. Dwarf tetraploids have been known as C.
groenlandica.
Plant Portrait: Campanula rotundifolia ssp. arctica 'Mount Jotunheim'
