ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Campanula uliginosa CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: CAMPANULALES FAMILY: CAMPANULACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Campanula uliginosa AUTHORITY: Rydb. COMMON NAMES: MARSH BELLFLOWER SYNONOMY: Campanula aparinoides grandiflora PLANTS CODE: CAUL3 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST THICKETS WETLAND MARSH BOG FEN BORDER OF LAKE SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: UNAVAILABLE NATURAL DIVISION: UNAVAILABLE COUNTIES: BOONE COOK DEKALB DUPAGE JO DAVIESS KANE LAKE LASALLE MCHENRY MASON PEORIA TAZEWELL WINNEBAGO WOODFORD GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary Adventitious (rhizomes) LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Alternate LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Entire Dentate LEAF SHAPE: Linear Lanceolate INFLORESCENCE: Solitary- few FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: Blue FLOWER PLACEMENT: Epigynous FRUIT: Capsule DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTIC COMMENTS: This is a stiffer plant with generally larger flowers than C. aparinoides. GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Not listed FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Occasional ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual Vegetative FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 6 MONTH END- 8 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Medium WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: No data entered REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Campanula uliginosa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015