Campanula uniflora
Campanula uniflora, known commonly as arctic bellflower and arctic harebell,[1] is a short and slender rhizomatous perennial in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. It is distributed in arctic North America, including the Rocky Mountains and Greenland, in the Asian part of Beringia and in Iceland, Svalbard, the Scandes Mountains and Novaja Zemlja.
| Campanula uniflora | |
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| In Upernavik, Greenland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Genus: | Campanula |
| Species: | C. uniflora |
| Binomial name | |
| Campanula uniflora | |
The species was first discovered by Linnaeus on his 1732 expedition to Lapland and described in his Flora Lapponica (1737).[2]
References
- Campanula uniflora. NatureServe. 2012.
- "Den virtuella floran - Fjällklocka" (in Swedish). Swedish Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
External links
Media related to Campanula uniflora at Wikimedia Commons- USDA Plants profile for Campanula uniflora
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