BERBERIDACEAE -- Barberry Family - New Mexico Flores

Scientific Name:
Campanula rotundifolia
Size:
15 - 50 cm
CAMPANULACEAE -- Bellflower Family
Description:
Ascending to erect perennial herb, stems 1 to
several, glabrous above, sometimes finely hairy
below. Basal leaves broadly oblanceolate or
ovate to almost round, 1 - 3 cm long, 5 - 15 mm
wide, with petioles 1 - 7 cm long, early
deciduous. Lower stem leaves on petioles,
lanceolate to linear, 2 - 9 cm long, 5 - 10 mm
wide; upper linear, sessile, 1 - 7 cm long, 1 - 5
mm wide. Flowers perfect, on stalks, solitary
from upper leaf axils or in loose clusters, often
drooping. Calyx with 5 linear or narrowly
triangular lobes 4 - 8 mm long. Corolla bellshaped,
12 - 20 mm long, with 5 erect, ovate
lobes. Stamens 5, distinct. Pistil 1, style 1,
stigma 3 - 5 lobed.
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Common Name:
Harebell, bluebell of Scotland
Color:
Light blue-violet
Notes:
The genus name Campanula is Latin for little
bell, referring to the shape of the flowers. The
species name rotundifolia comes from the Latin
rotundus, “round” and -folius, “leafed”,
describing the round basal leaves. The basal
leaves are rarely observed since they are early
deciduous and fall before the flowers appear.
The handsome and delicate flowers are often
drooping. Harebells bloom from June into
September between 7000 and 10000 ft.
New Mexico Native