Native & Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas & Georgia

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Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare in NC

Look for it on limestone outcrops, high elevation rocky summits (in thin soil over amphibolite), per Weakley's Flora

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal usually withered by flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer
Blue/ Violet
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed campanulate corolla
5 stamens
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
 Campanula rotundifolia   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Campanula rotundifolia   FAMILY Campanulaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 American Harebell, Bluebell, Bluebell-of-Scotland, Scotch Harebell

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image of Campanula rotundifolia, American Harebell, Bluebell, Bluebell-of-Scotland, Scotch Harebell

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_caro2_001_lvd

        

image of Campanula rotundifolia, American Harebell, Bluebell, Bluebell-of-Scotland, Scotch Harebell

JK Marlow    jkm0509f_2930

September    Greenville County    SC

In cultivation

'Olympica' Corolla blue, 15-30mm, bell-shaped, style shorter than corolla, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.