Branching Bluebell

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Wahlenbergia multicaulis


Small herb with few stems to 40 cm tall. Leaves dark green, oblong, wider towards tip with small bumps along the edges. Pale blue, five petalled flowers to 2 cm wide, held at the end of stems.


Details
Flora Type
Herbs
Former Scientific Name
Wahlenbergia tadgelli
Other Common Names
Tadgell's Bluebell
Distinctive Features

The petals are arranged like a wheel with a short tube with long petals (rotate) with almost no tube below the spreading petals. Other Bluebells have bell-shaped flowers (campanulate).

Biology

Perennial with thick taproot. In more exposed sites may have an annual life cycle.

Native Status
Native
Flowering Time

Sep-Dec

Taxonomy
Phylum
Tracheophyta (Vascular Plants)
Class
Equisetopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Campanulaceae
Genus
Wahlenbergia
Species
multicaulis

Source of nectar for butterflies. Named after the Swiss botanist Goran Wahlenberg (1780-1851).


Interesting Facts
Native Status
Native