Family: bellflowers (Campanulaceae)
Flowering time: June–July
Size: 20–60 cm
Habitat: commons, dry meadows and pastures
The erect stem of clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata) is not branched. The whole plant may be bare to densely short-haired, but it never has protruding stiff hairs. The lower leaves are long-petioled; their oval to ovate-lanceolate leaf blades are rounded or heart-shaped at the base. The upper stem leaves, which are sessile or short-petioled, are narrower. For clustered bellflower it is characteristic to have a dense, head-shaped inflorescence at the top of the stem, surrounded by involucral leaves. In addition to the terminal inflorescence, there may be small-flowered inflorescences developed in the axils of the upper stem leaves. The corolla, lily-like to bell-shaped in form, is usually distinctly blue-violet. It is about 2 cm long.
Clustered bellflower grows on moderately fertile soils throughout Slovenia, but is less common in the northwestern part of the country.
