Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Palustricodon aparinoides var. aparinoides
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Campanula at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Campanula aparinoides
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-02-003:
Campanula aparinoides FAMILY Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Campanula aparinoides var. aparinoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Campanula aparinoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Campanula aparinoides
COMMON NAME:
Marsh-bellflower, Bedstraw Bellflower
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_caap2_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_caap2_005_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Palustricodon aparinoides var. aparinoides
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Campanula aparinoides
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-02-003:
Campanula aparinoides
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Campanula aparinoides var. aparinoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Campanula aparinoides
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Campanula aparinoides
3369
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: bogs, marshes, wet meadows, seepage slopes over mafic or calcareous rocks, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia & possibly South Carolina
Rare
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes slender
FLOWER:
Summer
White to very pale blue
Radially symmetrical
5-parted calyx
5-lobed broadly campanulate corolla
5 stamens
Bisexual
Inflorescence a loose open panicle (or inflorescence reduced to 1-2 flowers)
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p255
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p298
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p169
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