Campanula scouleri

Campanula scouleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Campanulaceae
Genus:	Campanula
Species:	C. scouleri
Binomial name
	Campanula scouleri; Hook. ex A.DC.

Campanula scouleri is a species of bellflower known by the common names pale bellflower^[1] and Scouler's harebell. It is native to the mountains of western North America from northern California to Alaska.

Description

It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect or leaning stem 20 to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are thin to leathery, lance-shaped to round, and generally toothed, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long and borne on short winged petioles. The pale blue bell-shaped flower has a strongly reflexed corolla with lobes curling back and sometimes almost touching. The style protrudes far from the center of the flower; it is white to pale blue in color and up to 1.5 centimeters long.