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Campanula piperi

Olympic bellflower

Habit Perennial herbs, creeping below ground, glabrous or finely scabrous, the lax stems up to 1 dm. tall.
Leaves

Basal leaves oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. long and 1/3 as wide, sharply serrate with firm, slender teeth;

cauline leaves alternate, similar and nearly as large as the basal.

Flowers

Flowers 1-3 on the branch ends;

calyx lobes 5, leaf-like, narrow, 5-10 mm. long, with a few slender teeth;

corolla saucer-shaped, blue, 12-16 mm. long, the 5 broad lobes twice as long as the tube;

stamens 5;

style much shorter than the corolla;

ovary inferior.

Fruits

Capsule 3-celled; sub-globose, 3-5 cm. long and wide.

Campanula piperi

Flowering time June-September
Habitat Open, rocky areas at high elevations.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in the Olympic Mountains of Washington, where endemic.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
C. glomerata, C. lasiocarpa, C. medium, C. parryi, C. persicifolia, C. rapunculoides, C. rotundifolia, C. scabrella, C. scouleri
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