bluebell

Noun

• perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers

• 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

• sometimes placed in genus Scilla

Related words

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