ivybells

noun

plural ivybells

: a slender creeping European bellflower (Wahlbergia hederacea) of the family Campanulaceae that has petioled suborbicular to cordate and sometimes obscurely lobed leaves and small pale blue often nodding flowers and that is widely distributed in damp acid peaty areas throughout western Europe

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