Small bellflower
Campanula erinus
Family · Campanulaceae · Harmless
The smallest of the Iberian bellflowers, with pale blue flowers of a few millimetres hidden among the leaves. It grows in wall cracks and on stone, and goes entirely unnoticed unless you look for it.
Walls and rocks · Uplands · Roadsides and waste ground · Town and roadside
Also known asannual bellflower
How to tell it
A tiny annual, five to twenty centimetres, forked from the base and covered in rough hairs. Small leaves with coarse teeth. Pale blue or whitish flowers with five narrow lobes, sitting in the forks of the branches.
What it is confused with
No dangerous lookalikes known in the Iberian Peninsula.
What it is for
No use
It is worth it as proof that there is flora to see even on a dry stone wall, and for teaching you to look at what measures less than a centimetre.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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