Skye Flora

Campanula rotundifolia

Photo © Carl Farmer
(14 Jul 2002 Geilo, Norway)

Rare on Skye.  Roadsides, grassy banks.

Flowers c 13-18 mm long.

Skye ID: Unmistakeable in flower.  No other campanula species grow wild on Skye.

Other features: Flower divided into 5 lobes to about a third of the way down.  Upper leaves linear; lower leaves with roundish blade and long stalk, but soon withering.

Photo © Carl Farmer
(18 Jul 2002 Inverness)
 

Showing narrow leaf (spreading horizontally to the right of the stem near the bottom of the picture)