goflowers's Identifications

California Harebell (Smithiastrum prenanthoides) is a native, perennial plant in the Bellflower (Campanulaceae) family that grows up to 4 ft tall in redwood, conifer, or mixed evergreen forests up to 6500 ft. Leaves are alternate and unlobed with toothed margins. Flowers are delicate, lavender-blue, 5-petaled and pendulous. Style is long and extends beyond the recurved petals. Peak bloom time: June-July. Indigenous people ate the edible young bulbs. http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Asyneuma+prenanthoides

California Harebell is a plant with many names: (as of 6/20/24)
Asyneuma prenanthoides (Jepson, Calflora)
Campanula prenanthoides
Smithiastrum prenanthoides (ONLY INat calls it this)
Harebells (Genus Asyneuma) lists numerous species in taxonomy chart, but not prenanthoides https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/71994-Asyneuma

Calflora (includes species distribution map in CA) https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=10784

Wildflowers of California: A Field Guide, California Native Plant Society, 2024 (color photos, 600+ pages), p. 290.

Native American Ethnobotany: Traditional Native Plant Uses (foods, medicines, fibers, tools): http://naeb.brit.org/http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=Asyneuma+prenanthoides

Jepson eFlora (with botanical illustration) lists it as "Asyneuma prenanthoides, Synonyms: Campanula prenanthoides"
https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=15138

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 118-119. Also lists it as "Asyneuma prenanthoides"

Flora of North America http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Main_Page (search by scientific name) (not findable under any of the above listed names)

Leaf Terminology: Diagrams/Definitions: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Leaf_morphology.svg

Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary, 2nd ed., by James Harris and M. Harris, 2022