Campanula shetleri

Campanula shetleri is a rare species of bellflower known by the common name Castle Crags bellflower. The plant is named for Castle Crags, a mountain formation in its limited native range, within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.[2][3]

Campanula shetleri

Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Genus: Campanula
Species:
C. shetleri
Binomial name
Campanula shetleri
Heckard

It is endemic to California, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences in the southern reaches of the Cascade Range near the border between Siskiyou and Shasta Counties.

Description

Campanula shetleri is a plant of the temperate coniferous forests of the range. This is a small, clumpy perennial herb growing from a woody rhizome. It produces a patch of hairy leaves not more than 5 centimeters high, each leaf leathery in texture with approximately two large pointed teeth on each edge.

The flower is about a centimeter long, white to pale blue with corolla lobes curled back and a protruding style.

The fruit is a ribbed, cup-shaped capsule containing tiny seeds each about millimeter wide.

References
  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. Heckard, Lawrence R. (1969). "A New Campanula from Northern California". Madroño. 20 (4): 231–235. ISSN 0024-9637. JSTOR 41425975.
  3. Luna, Tara (2014-09-21). "Conserving US temperate forest plant diversity: a case example with forest-floor Aristolochiaceae". Native Plants Journal. 15 (3): 236–246. doi:10.3368/npj.15.3.236. ISSN 1522-8339. S2CID 83534135.


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