Ravenella sharsmithiae

Sharsmith's harebell

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Sharsmith's harebell is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native annual found in the southern San Francisco Bay region's Mount Hamilton Range on talus slopes at elevations of 400 to 1,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces deep purple bell-shaped flowers 7 to 16 millimeters long with recurved lobes. Growing with erect, stiffly hairy stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive upright form. Its leaves are sessile, broadly lanceolate, 5 to 11 millimeters long, fleshy, and serrate along the edges. The fruit is an oblong, strongly ribbed structure with papillae, containing small smooth seeds about 0.6 to 0.7 millimeters long.

Habitat: Talus slopes

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 400-1000 m

Bioregions: s SnFrB (Mount Hamilton Range).

California counties: Stanislaus, Alameda, Santa Clara

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