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Parry's Northern Harebell - Campanula parryi
Native Species
Global Rank:
G4?
State Rank:
S3
(see State Rank Reason below)
C-value:
7
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Over 40 collections at MONTU from sw Montana mountain ranges.
General Description
Fibrous-rooted with a slender-branched crown. Stems slender, ascending to erect, simple, 5–30 cm. Herbage glabrous; leaves with ciliate petiole bases, margins scabrous. Basal leaves petiolate; blades oblanceolate, entire, 1–2 cm long. Stem leaves narrower, longer, becoming sessile. Inflorescence a solitary, terminal flower. Flowers: hypanthium glabrous to puberulent; sepals linear-lanceolate, 3–8 mm long, erect; corolla campanulate, 9–15 mm long; style shorter than corolla; stigmas 3(to 5). Capsule erect, 7–11 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are variety
idahoensis McVaugh.
Range Comments
WA to MT south to AZ, NM and CO (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 30
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Relative Density
Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Non-calcareous soil of fellfields, talus, meadows, open forest; upper subalpine, alpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus rufocinctus,
Bombus pensylvanicus,
Bombus bimaculatus,
Bombus griseocollis, and
Bombus impatiens (Thorp et al. 1983, Colla and Dumesh 2010, Williams et al. 2014).
Stewardship Responsibility
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Williams, P., R. Thorp, L. Richardson, and S. Colla. 2014. Bumble Bees of North America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 208 p.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Forcella, F. 1977. Flora, chorology, biomass and productivity of the Pinus albicaulis-Vaccinium scoparium association. M.S. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 99 pp.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
- Martin, S.A. 1985. Ecology of the Rock Creek bighorn sheep herd, Beartooth Mountains, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 152 p.
- Simanonok, M.P., and L.A. Burkle. 2014. Partitioning interaction turnover among alpine pollination networks: Spatial temporal, and environmental patterns. Ecosphere 5(11):149.
- Tuinstra, K. E. 1967. Vegetation of the floodplains and first terraces of Rock Creek near Red Lodge, Montana. Ph.D dissertation. Montana State University, Bozeman 110 pp.
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