Common Name:
Bluebell

Family name:
Campanulaceae

Botanical name:
Wahlenbergia spp.

Flowering/fruiting season:
November - January

Location:
Woodland or grassy places in ACT

Use:

  • Food
  • Flowers eaten (Fraser & McJannett, 1993:65)

Bluebell

Notes:

  • Wahlenbergia gloriosa (see top photo) Floral emblem of the Australian Capital Territory.
  • 'Common above 4000ft, a showy species of subalpine and high montane forest and woodland…' (Burbidge & Gray, 1976:347)

Tall Bluebell

Language names:

Horticulture :
Strike readily from cuttings and also can be grown from seed (Wrigley & Fagg, 1998:193-4)

Similar species:
Tall Bluebell Wahlenbergia stricta sub stricta (see bottom photo)

Use code:
FLO

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