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© 2011 Margaret Eros
Woodland (damp)
© 2014 Margaret Eros
Woodland
Woodland edge
This is a herbaceous perennial plant that typically grows in clumps.
The basal leaves are narrowly spatulate and usually wither before flowering time. The stem is erect and unbranched with a few flowers in a loosely branched cluster towards the tip. Upper leaves are few, unstalked and almost linear.
The large cup shaped flowers are usually pale blue but may be white.
The fruit is a conical capsule with pores through which the seeds are scattered when shaken.
© 2011 Margaret Eros
Grassland
Wayside
This flower is common throughout Europe, usually found in grassy meadows, wayside and hedgerows.
The flowers are delicate with fine stems spreading laterally and they may support themselves on surrounding vegetation.
In its first year, it produces a rosette of short-stalked, slender, spatulate leaves (naroowing slightly towards the base). In the second year it sends up one or more flowering stalks. The leaves on these are alternate, linear and unstalked, the margins having rounded teeth.
The pointed lobes of the petals are long and spread outwards.The calyx is fused and has five triangular lobes, sharp-tipped with a spiky appearance.
The plant needs light for the seeds to germinate so may reappear after many years of absence when the soil is disturbed.
White
Yellow
Blue
Red
Other
• Backwater
• Marsh
• Damp Grasslands
•Scrub
• Cultivated Fields
• Wayside 
• Dry Grasslands
• Woodland
The Nettle-leaved Bellflower is a herbaceous, perennial plant that likes humus-rich soil and is found in broad-leaved woodlands, coppices, hedgerows and the margins of forests.
Leaves are hairy with toothed margins, arranged alternately along the stem. The lower leaves are long stalked and ovate with heart-shaped base, upper leaves lack stalks, and are attached directly to stem. The stem is angular with stiff hairs.
The flowers are large, 3 – 4 cm in length and distinctly hairy inside. They have 5 stamens and 3 carpels fused to form single pistil in centre. Pollination by various insects, mainly bees and bumble bees, feed on nectar at base of flower.
The fruit is a hairy, nodding capsule with porous openings that close in damp weather. In dry conditions small, light seeds are released and distributed by wind or passing animals.