Campanula alpestris

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Campanulids
Ordo: Asterales

Familia: Campanulaceae
Subfamilia: Campanuloideae
Genus: Campanula
Species: Campanula alpestris
Name

Campanula alpestris All.
Synonyms

Heterotypic
Campanula allionii Vill., Prosp. Hist. Pl. Dauphiné: 22 (1779).
Campanula trilocularis Turra, Fl. Ital. Prodr.: 64 (1780).
Campanula nana Lam., Encycl. 1: 585 (1785).

Distribution
Native distribution areas:
Campanula alpestris

Continental: Europe
Regional: Southern Europe
France; Italy

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

Allioni, C., 1773. Auct. Syn. Meth. Stirp. Hort. Regii Taur.: 11 . (Mélanges Philos. Math. Soc. Roy. Turin 5:63. 1774)
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. [1]

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Campanula alpestris in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 19. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2019. Campanula alpestris. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul. 19. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Campanula alpestris. Published online. Accessed: Jul 19 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Campanula alpestris in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jul 19.
Tropicos.org 2019. Campanula alpestris. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 19 Jul 2019.

Vernacular names

Campanula alpestris, the alpine bellflower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is native to the south western European Alps.

The generic name (Campanula) comes from the shape of a bell flower; in particular, the word comes from Latin and means: small bell. From the records it shows that the first to use the botanical name of "Bellflower" was the Belgian naturalist Rembert Dodoens, who lived between 1517 and 1585. This name was still in use for some time, although modified, in many European languages. In fact, in these plants they were archaic French "Campanelles" calls (today we say "Campanules" or "Clochettes"), while in German are called "Glockenblumen" and in English "Bell-flower" or "Blue-bell". In Italian they are called "bells". All these forms that derive from the Latin language course. The specific name (alpestris) refers the typical habitats of these plants; in particular it refers to the lowest mountain areas where the vegetation is influenced by the foothills. The scientific name of the species was defined for the first time by the Italian botanist and physician Carlo Ludovico Allioni (Turin, September 23, 1728 - Turin, July 30, 1804) in the publication Auctarium ad Synopsim Methodicam Stirpium Horti Reg. Taurinensis - 11 and later in Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Indigenarum Pedemontii - 113. t. 6. f. 3..