Nettle-leaved Bellflower - Campanula trachelium
Medium to tall hairy plant to 1 metre tall, sometimes more. Stems erect, branched or unbranched, bristly, sharply angled, usually reddish. Leaves rough, paler beneath, long pointed, irregularly toothed, the upper leaves unstalked. Flowers violet blue or pale blue, 30 to 50 mm long, ascending to horizontal bells borne in leafy racemes.
Woodland margins, hedgerows and scrub.
July to September.
Perennial
Scattered throughout most of Britain as far north as Perth.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 5 of the 617 tetrads.
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
21 August 2012
steven lewis
Priory water
24 July 2019
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Cosby
08 July 2016
stem bristly
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
10 August 2011
Mark Skevington
Watermead CP South
14 August 2012
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Cosby
08 July 2016
Graham Calow
Dismantled Railway (Whistle Way)
Narborough
24 September 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Nettle-leaved Bellflower, Bats-In-The-Belfry
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asterales
- Family:
- Campanulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 29
- First record:
- 05/08/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 20/09/2024 (Baxter, Carolyn)
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Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
05 August 2011
petiolate (with stalk) mid stem leaf <br/> with a cordate (heart shaped) base
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
05 August 2011
Graham Calow
Cambridge Road, Cosby
08 July 2016
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
05 August 2011
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
21 August 2012
Mark Skevington
Watermead CP South
14 August 2012
Liriomyza strigata
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Liriomyza strigata mines the leaves of a wide variety of plants, with records from 47 plant genera in 15 plant families in Britain. It is an upper surface mine usually following the midrib and showing side branches along the veins, but the mine can be variable depending on the host plant used. Frass appears in long strings.