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Melanocalyx uniflora
Also called Arctic Harebell, Arctic Bellflower
Melancalyx 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 recorded by Linnaeus on his 1732 expedition to Lapland and described in his Flora Lapponica (1737).
Melanocalyx uniflora is widespread in the northern hemisphere. In Europe it is native to the island nation of Iceland and the Fennoscandian Peninsula in the nations of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. In Norway they can be found as far south as 62° N, growing in an isolated population in the southern Scandinavian Mountains, but are more common in the north where they cross over into Sweden as well. It also is part of the flora of the Faroe Islands, Svalbard, North European Russia, and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago south of 74° N.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melanocalyx uniflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
