Campanula rotundifolia

      
Harebell

Flower Top

Moosomin Regional Park
20-Aug-2004

Note the length of the anthers.

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Rotundifolia:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  
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basal leaves ovate or cordate; NOT linear, NOT narrowly lanceolate

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basal leaves soon withering

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

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stem leaves less than 1 cm wide

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

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flowers NOT crowded into a head

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inflorescence NOT secund

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calyx glabrous

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flowers more than 12 mm long

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

 
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Campanulaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. 
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herbs; NOT shrubs, NOT trees

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plants green or with some chlorophyll

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NOT climbing plants

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plants often with milky juice

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leaves basal or alternate; NOT opposite

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

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

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corolla regular

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corolla bell-shaped; NOT split down one side

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anthers free; NOT united into a tube

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ovary inferior