Audience Meadow, Shropshire

Nettle-leaved Bellflower

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Campanula trachelium. A perennial flower of calcareous soils, its common names also include Throatwort and Huskwort, as it was historically believed capable of curing throat infections and the like. It grows in some numbers here on the limestone soils above the Severn Gorge.

Uploaded to Geograph by Richard Law on 2 August 2010

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