Campanula rotundifolia

Alpine harebell

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Alpine harebell is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and high California Ranges in moist mountain slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this delicate plant produces pale to deep blue flowers with bell-shaped corollas 12 to 20 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 10 to 60 centimeters tall, it forms a slender, nearly hairless herb with thin stems. Its leaves are distinctive, ranging from 30 to 60 millimeters long, linear to lanceolate, with basal leaves on stalks and upper stem leaves sessile. The flower's blue to white style and reflexed corolla lobes create an elegant, graceful appearance in alpine and subalpine environments.

Habitat: Moist slopes

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1200-2500 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Contra Costa, Shasta, Mendocino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.