This rhizomatous perennial herb has a spreading habit with many slender stems. It has dark green narrow leaves and the blue bell-shape flowers appearing in a cluster during summer.

Hardiness zones 8 to 10

Wahlenbergia communis is naturally found throughout Australia growing in understorey grasslands in forests on the coast and in the mountains.

It prefers a well drained fertile moist sandy to light clay soil in an open sunny to semi shaded position and is drought tender but frost tolerant.

Tufted Bluebell is a dainty flowering perennial that is grown as a ground cover or as a specimen plant in a small garden or in rockeries. It is also used in patio pots and planter boxes or mass planted in the understory of a woodland setting. It establishes from division in one season and once is a hardy plant that requires little maintenance. ID 998

Wahlenbergia (vah-lan-BERG-ee-a) communis (kom-EW-nis)

Campanulaceae (kam-pan-yew-LAY-see-ee)
Bellflower and Lobelia Family