Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Campanula scouleri is a species of bellflower known by the common names pale bellflower and Scouler's harebell. It is native to the mountains of western North America from northern California to Alaska. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing an erect or leaning stem 20 to 30 centimeters long. The leaves are thin to leathery, lance-shaped to round, and generally toothed, measuring 1 to 6 centimeters long and borne on short winged petioles. The pale blue bell-shaped flower has a strongly reflexed corolla with lobes curling back and sometimes almost touching. The style protrudes far from the center of the flower; it is blue in color and up to 1. 5 centimeters long.

Plant type

Perennial herb

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Color

Blue

Sun

Full Sun, Partial Shade

Plant communities

Douglas-Fir Forest, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Yellow Pine Forest

Bees
Butterflies

Pollinators supported

0 confirmed and 25 likely

  • Likely

  • Confirmed

Red-tipped Digger Bee

Anthophora terminalis

Bombus californicus

Flavid Cuckoo Bumble Bee

Bombus flavidus

Yellow Head Bumble Bee

Bombus flavifrons