Harebell family : CAMPANULAEAE (ASTERIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Lobelia erinus Garden Lobelia Sydney, November 2006	Lobelia rhombifolia Tufted Lobelia Morwell Park, November 1994	Lobelia vedrariensis Purple Lobelia Wyee, May 2007	Platycodon grandiflorus "Miss Tilly Blue" Chinese Bell Flower Sydney, December 2008
Pratia purpurascens White Root Wyee, March 2007	Wahlenbergia communis Tufted Bluebell Sydney, October 2006	Wahlenbergia gloriosa Royal Bluebell 1986 Australia Post	Wahlenbergia gracilis Sprawling Bluebell Morwell Park, November 1994

Wahlenbergia stricta Tall Bluebell 1999 Australia Post

The only caterpillar that we have encountered in Australia that feeds on members of CAMPANULAEAE is:

Cosmodes elegans

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013)