Family: Campanulaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Asterales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Campanulaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Herbs, subshrubs, shrubs, or rarely trees.
Leaves: Leaves simple, alternate, the lamina margin often serrulate.
Exudate: White latex often present.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence a raceme-like cyme.
Flowers: Flowers 5-merous, zygomorphic, bisexual; sepals 5; corolla tubular, 5-lobed; stamens 5, fused into a column, adnate to corolla base, usually exerted from corolla; ovary inferior, 1-3-locular, the style enclosed in the staminal column; placentation axile or parietal.
Fruit: Fruit a berry.
Seeds: Seeds many per fruit, lenticular.