Campanula scouleri

Scouler's harebell

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Scouler's harebell is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Mount Shasta region in shaded woodlands and streamside habitats at elevations of 100 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces pale blue flowers in widely bell-shaped blossoms 8 to 15 millimeters long with delicate reflexed lobes. Growing with reclining to erect stems 20 to 30 centimeters tall, it has narrow winged leaf petioles and thin to leathery leaves. Its leaves are widely lanceolate to nearly round, 10 to 60 millimeters long with serrated edges. The fruit is an obconic shape with weakly ribbed surfaces and pores near the middle.

Habitat: Shaded woodland, streamsides

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 100-1900 m

Bioregions: KR, n NCoRO, CaRH (Mount Shasta, Lassen Peak), n SNH

California counties: Humboldt, Trinity, Siskiyou, Del Norte, Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Marin, Sierra, Mendocino, Modoc

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