Campanula rotundifolia

      
Harebell

Inflorescence in Ground

Moosomin Regional Park
20-Aug-2004

Rotundifolia:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  

basal leaves ovate or cordate; NOT linear, NOT narrowly lanceolate

basal leaves soon withering

stem leaves narrow, linear to filiform; NOT broad, NOT [ovate  to ovate-lanceolate]

stem leaves less than 1 cm wide

stem usually bearing many flowers; NOT [simple, bearing a solitary terminal flower]

flowers NOT crowded into a head

inflorescence NOT secund

calyx glabrous

flowers more than 12 mm long

corolla 1-2 cm long; NOT 2-3 cm long

 

Campanulaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. 

herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees

plants green or with some chlorophyll

NOT climbing plants

plants often with milky juice

leaves basal or alternate; NOT opposite

flowers NOT in heads, NOT in form resembling a head; NOT [in long or short spikes]

flowers with two floral rings, but with the petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell

corolla regular

corolla bell-shaped; NOT split down one side

anthers free; NOT united into a tube

ovary inferior