Habit: Annual, perennial herb, from taproot, fibrous roots, or rhizome, hairs 0 to dense.
Stem: reclining or erect, branched, 2--60[150] cm, 4-angled.
Leaf: basal or not, cauline, generally lanceolate to ovate, thin, fleshy, or leathery, entire to toothed, sessile or petioled, gradually reduced distally to bracts in inflorescence.
Inflorescence: raceme and/or flowers 1 [head, spike, panicle]; terminal or axillary.
Flower: not inverted; corolla cylindric to funnel- or bell-shaped, white to deep blue, cut 1/4--2/3 [to all the way] to base, lobes narrow- to wide-triangular; ovary inferior, hemispheric, spheric, or oblong to obconic.
Fruit: open by 2--3 lateral pores.
Seed: 0.6--3.5 mm, oblong or fusiform.
Species In Genus: +- 400 species: northern hemisphere; many cultivated, some medicinal.
Etymology: (Latin: little bell, from corolla shape)
Note: Campanula prenanthoides moved to
Asyneuma.
Unabridged Note: Campanula medium L. collected in 2000 from landfill northern of Baldwin Lake, SnBr, but probably not reproducing.Jepson eFlora Author: Nancy R. Morin
Reference: Roquet et al. 2008 Syst Bot 33:203--217
Unabridged Reference: Morin 1980 Madroño 27:149--163Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Campanula
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