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• n  sometimes placed in genus Scilla
• n  one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
• n  perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

• Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll is born, and every time a fairy trips over a bluebell, his remark breaks into a million pieces.

• wild hyacinth
• wood hyacinth
• harebell
• Hyacinthoides nonscripta
• Scilla nonscripta
• prairie gentian
• tulip gentian
• Eustoma grandiflorum
• Campanula rotundifolia

News & Articles

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• Genesee County Parks celebrates International Mud Day with ankle-deep mud pit at Bluebell Beach
  After the dirt had been dumped in a grassy area inside Bluebell Beach, Saturday, June 29, and moistened with some of the 2,000 gallons of water provided by Genesee Township firefighters, a paradise of messy fun for kids and parents ensued.
  June 30, 2013 - The Flint Journal

Quotes

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• Geri Halliwell in The Age
  But what really clinched it for me was my mother telling me that the bluebell is increasingly rare - so it's precious flower, which seems just right for my daughter,Halliwell said.