Mertensia bella: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Boraginales
- Family
- Boraginaceae
- Genus
- Mertensia
- Species
- Mertensia bella
- Scientific Name
- Mertensia bella
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mertensia bella
Mertensia bella is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common names beautiful bluebells and Oregon lungwort. It is native to the northwestern United States, where it grows in wet mountain habitat. It is a perennial herb producing a slender, erect stem and caudex unit up to half a meter tall. The rough-haired leaves are alternately arranged and borne on petioles. The inflorescence is an open array of clustered bright blue, bell-shaped flowers up to a centimeter wide at the lobed mouths.
...Mertensia bella in languages:
- English
- Oregon lungwort
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Mertensia arizonica
- Mertensia bakeri
- Mertensia bella
- Mertensia brachycalyx
- Mertensia brachyloba
- Mertensia brevistyla
- Mertensia campanulata
- Mertensia cana
- Mertensia ciliata
- Mertensia coronata
- Mertensia cusickii
- Mertensia cynoglossoides
- Mertensia davurica
- Mertensia eastwoodiae
- Mertensia fendleri
- Mertensia franciscana
- Mertensia grahamii
- Mertensia humilis
- Mertensia kamczatica
- Mertensia lanceolata
- Mertensia lateriflora
- Mertensia lineariloba
- Mertensia longiflora
- Mertensia longipedunculata
- Mertensia macdougalii
- Mertensia maritima
- Mertensia mexicana
- Mertensia meyeriana
- Mertensia nevadensis
- Mertensia nivalis
- Mertensia oblongifolia
- Mertensia oreophila
- Mertensia ovata
- Mertensia pallasii
- Mertensia paniculata
- Mertensia parvifolia
- Mertensia platyphylla
- Mertensia pratensis
- Mertensia pterocarpa
- Mertensia pubescens
- Mertensia rivularis
- Mertensia serrulata
- Mertensia sibirica
- Mertensia simplicissima
- Mertensia sinica
- Mertensia stylosa
- Mertensia subcordata
- Mertensia tarbagataica
- Mertensia tweedyi
- Mertensia umbratilis
- Mertensia virginica
- Mertensia viridis

























