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July 4, 2012
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Southeastern, New Hampshire
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A very interesting find. I had never seen any bellflowers before. According to the
New England Wildflower Society web page, “It is edible. The leaves and young shoots
are high in vitamin C and mild in flavor, and the roots are edible raw or cooked.” Key:
- Style included with the corolla to reaching the tips of the corolla lobes.
- Corolla 10-55 mm long.
- Calyx without appendages between the lobes.
- Flowers with pedicels (stems).
- Calyx lobes lanceolate to triangular or oblong. Stem leaves not linear to
narrow-lanceolate.
- Stem leaf blades lanceolate to ovate, cordate-ovate, or triangular-ovate.
- Corolla not broadly rotate-campanulate (nearly circular in outline).
- Calyx lobes spreading to reflexed during flowering. Inflorescence an elongate,
raceme with flowers tending to one side of the stem.
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