Campanula rotundifolia “Mountain Harebell” Campanulaceae
Two Medicine, Glacier National Park, MT
October 8, 2015
Robert Niese
The Mountain Harebell has a circumpolar distribution where it tends to be a late-blooming perennial. As a native of the British Isles, the harebell has attracted the attention of many a great English poet, including William Shakespeare, John Clare, and Christina Rossetti. Here in the PNW, the Haida people called them “blue rain flowers” and believed that picking them would cause it to rain.
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