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Campanula uniflora
Campanula
uniflora
, known commonly as
arctic
bellflower
and
arctic
harebell
, is a
short
and
slender
rhizomatous
perennial
in the
bellflower family
Campanulaceae
. It is
distributed
in arctic
North America
, including the
Rocky Mountains
and
Greenland
, in the
Asian
part of
Beringia
and in
Iceland
,
Svalbard
, the
Scandes Mountains
and
Novaja Zemlja
.
The
species
was first
discovered
by
Linnaeus
on his
1732
expedition
to
Lapland
and described in his
Flora
Lapponica
.