Plant Details

Accepted name:: Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small [Campanulaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american bellflower	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 16 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Campanula americana L. Sp. Pl.: 164 (1753).
Campanula acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 108 (1803).
Campanula americana f. albiflora M.L.Grant Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 60: 148 (1953).
Campanula americana var. illinoensis (Fresen.) Farw. Rep. (Annual) Michigan Acad. Sci. 20: 191 (1918).
Campanula americana var. subulata A.DC. Monogr. Campan.: 314 (1830).
Campanula americana f. tubuliflora Fernald Rhodora 44: 458 (1942).
Campanula asteroides Lam. Tabl. Encycl. 2: 55 (1796).
Campanula declinata Moench Suppl. Meth.: 187 (1802).
Campanula illinoensis Fresen. Index Seminum (FRT, Francofurtensi) 1836: 4 (1836).
Campanula nitida Aiton Hort. Kew. 1: 221 (1789).
Campanula obliqua Jacq. Pl. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 47 (1798).
Campanula pauciflora Lam. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 269 (1840), not validly publ.
Campanula planiflora Lam. Encycl. 1: 580 (1785).
Campanula subulata P.Beauv. ex A.DC. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 7: 478 (1839).
Campanulastrum americanum var. illinoense (Fresen.) Mohlenbr. Phytoneuron 2015-67: 2 (2015).
Phyteuma americanum (L.) Hill Veg. Syst., ed. 8: 15 (1765).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Campanula americana L.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Campanulastrum americanum (L.) Small	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998)

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