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Campanula piperi

Campanula rotundifolia
Campanula piperi

Olympic bellflower

bluebell-of-scotland
Habit Perennial herbs, creeping below ground, glabrous or finely scabrous, the lax stems up to 1 dm. tall. Perennial herbs with a branched system of rhizomes arising from a taproot, the stems 1-8 dm. tall, usually glabrous.
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.

Basal leaves long-petiolate, the blades highly variable, from broadly ovate to cordate-rotund or oblanceolate, entire or toothed, up to 2 cm. long;

cauline leaves alternate, fairly numerous, broadly linear, 1.5-8 cm. long.
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.

Flowers several in a lax raceme, erect or nodding on long pedicels;

calyx lobes 5, 4-12 mm. long, entire;

corolla bell-shaped, blue, 1.5-3 cm. long, the 5 lobes much shorter than the tube;

stamens 5, free from the corolla;

style nearly equaling the corolla;

ovary inferior.
Fruits

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

Capsule 3-celled, nodding, broadly obconic, 4-8 mm. long.

Campanula piperi

Campanula rotundifolia
Flowering time June-September May-September
Habitat Open, rocky areas at high elevations. Open, rocky areas from low elevations to the alpine.
Distribution
Occurring west of the Cascades crest in the Olympic Mountains of Washington, where endemic.
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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington Alaska to California, east across NorthAmerica to the Atlantic Coast; circumboreal.
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Origin Native Native
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. glomerata, C. lasiocarpa, C. medium, C. parryi, C. persicifolia, C. piperi, C. rapunculoides, C. scabrella, C. scouleri
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