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Campanula piperi

Olympic bellflower

clustered 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

Campanula glomerata

Flowering time June-September June-July
Habitat Open, rocky areas at high elevations. Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in the Olympic Mountains of Washington, where endemic.
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Occurring in scattered locations east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southwestern British Columbia, central Washington, and western Montana.
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Origin Native Introduced from Eurasia
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
C. glomerata, C. lasiocarpa, C. medium, C. parryi, C. persicifolia, C. rapunculoides, C. rotundifolia, C. scabrella, C. scouleri
C. lasiocarpa, C. medium, C. parryi, C. persicifolia, C. piperi, C. rapunculoides, C. rotundifolia, C. scabrella, C. scouleri
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