Campanula shetleri

Campanula shetleri

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Campanula
Species:
C. shetleri
Binomial name
Campanula shetleri
Heckard

Campanula shetleri is a rare species of bellflower known by the common name Castle Crags bellflower. The plant is named for Castle Crags, a mountain formation in its limited native range, within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.[2][3]

It is endemic to California, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences in the southern reaches of the Cascade Range near the border between Siskiyou and Shasta Counties.

Description

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Campanula shetleri is a plant of the temperate coniferous forests of the range. This is a small, clumpy perennial herb growing from a woody rhizome. It produces a patch of hairy leaves not more than 5 centimeters high, each leaf leathery in texture with approximately two large pointed teeth on each edge.

The flower is about a centimeter long, white to pale blue with corolla lobes curled back and a protruding style.

The fruit is a ribbed, cup-shaped capsule containing tiny seeds each about millimeter wide.

References

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  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ^ Heckard, Lawrence R. (1969). "A New Campanula from Northern California". Madroño. 20 (4): 231–235. ISSN 0024-9637. JSTOR 41425975.
  3. ^ Luna, Tara (2014-09-21). "Conserving US temperate forest plant diversity: a case example with forest-floor Aristolochiaceae". Native Plants Journal. 15 (3): 236–246. doi:10.3368/npj.15.3.236. ISSN 1522-8339. S2CID 83534135.
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