Common Names - Bellflower Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 90 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 2000 |
Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Herb | |
World Distribution - Holarctic, Paleotropical, Neotropical, Cape, Australian, and Antarctic. Frigid zone to tropical. Cosmopolitan, except tropical Africa, Greenland, Sahara. | |
Comments - Also under Campanulales/Herbs (mostly), or trees to shrubs (a few) This family is almost cosmopolitan but concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere. However in the Southern Hemisphere, South Africa is remarkably rich in members of this family. |
1 - Brighamia. 2 - Burmeistera. 3 - Campanula. 4 - Centropogon. 5 - Clermontia. 6 - Cyanea. 7 - Lobelia. 8 - Rollandia. 9 - Trematolobelia. |