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Campanula scouleri

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Species of flowering plant

Campanula scouleri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Campanula
Species: C. scouleri
Binomial name
Campanula scouleri
Hook. ex A.DC.

Campanula scouleri is a species of bellflower known by the common names pale bellflower and Scouler's harebell. It is native to the mountains of western North America from northern California to Alaska.

Description

It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect or leaning stem 20 to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are thin to leathery, lance-shaped to round, and generally toothed, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long and borne on short winged petioles. The pale blue bell-shaped flower has a strongly reflexed corolla with lobes curling back and sometimes almost touching. The style protrudes far from the center of the flower; it is white to pale blue in color and up to 1.5 centimeters long.

References

  1. NRCS. "Campanula scouleri". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 24 June 2016.

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Taxon identifiers
Campanula scouleri


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