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CAMPANULACEAE

BELLFLOWER FAMILY

Nancy Morin, except as specified

Annual to tree
Leaves generally cauline, generally simple, generally alternate, petioled or not; stipules 0
Inflorescence: panicle, raceme, spike, or flowers solitary in axils, generally open; bracts leaf-like or not
Flower: bisexual, radial or bilateral, sometimes inverted (pedicel twisted 180°; hypanthium generally present, ± fused to ovary; sepals generally 5; corolla radial to 2-lipped, generally fused (tube sometimes split down back), lobes generally 5; stamens 5, free or ± fused (anthers and filaments fused into tube or filaments fused above middle); ovary inferior, sometimes half inferior, chambers 1–3, placentas axile or parietal, ovules many, style generally 1, 2–5-branched
Fruit: generally capsule, dehiscing on sides or at tip by pores or short valves
Seeds many
Genera in family: ± 70 genera, ± 2000 species: worldwide. Some cultivated for ornamental (Campanula, Jasione, Lobelia ). Subfamilies sometimes treated as different families.

GITHOPSIS

BLUECUP

Annual, glabrous to hairy; roots fibrous
Stem erect, simple or branched, 2–40 cm, 4-angled
Leaves cauline, widely linear to ovate, serrate, sessile
Inflorescence: flowers generally solitary, terminal
Flower pedicelled or not; sepals 0.5–3 X ovary, linear to narrowly triangular; corolla cylindric, funnel-, or bell-shaped, throat white, lobes linear to widely ovate, white to deep purple; ovary inferior, obconic to cylindric and narrowed near middle
Fruit dehiscing at top, through opening formed when style base falls off
Seeds ± 1 mm, angular-fusiform
Species in genus: 4 species: w North America
Etymology: (Greek: Githago -like)
Reference: [Morin 1983 Syst Bot 8:436–468]

Native

G. diffusa A. Gray

Plant glabrous to hairy
Stem clambering to erect, 2–30 cm
Leaf 3–15 mm; bracts 2.5–10 mm, linear or oblanceolate, < 5 mm apart
Flower: pedicel 0; sepals 1.5–2 X hypanthium; corolla 1.5–7.5 mm, 2.5–4.5 X longer than wide at level of sinuses, narrowly funnel-shaped, lobes = or < ovary, white to deep blue; filament bases narrow, glabrous; ovary 4–9 mm, cylindric to obconic, 2–6.5 X longer than wide at top, narrowed near middle, base swollen, ribs 10, those ending at sinuses narrower, style 2–4.5 mm, upper 35–75% papillate
Chromosomes: n=10,20
Ecology: Shade or open areas
Elevation: 50–2000 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, n Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: Baja California

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