E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

General:
Perennial herb from a taproot, slender rhizomes or branched stem-base; stems single to several, erect or ascending, 10-80 cm tall, more or less glabrous.

Leaves:
Basal leaves stalked, oval to heart-shaped, often deciduous; stem leaves alternate, toothed, linear to linear-lanceolate or egg-shaped, 1.5-8 cm long.

Flowers:
Inflorescence of several terminal clusters of numerous, bell-shaped flowers, erect or nodding; corollas 15-35 mm long, blue; calyx tubes glabrous; sepals entire.

Fruits:
Capsules, 5-8 mm long, nodding, cylindric to inverted cone-shaped.

Notes:
There is little evidence to suggest that C. alaskana is anything other than a coastal race of the highly variable C. rotundifolia. Many taxonomists (e.g., Shetler 1963, Welsh 1974, Scoggan 1979, Kartesz 1994) do not recognize any infraspecific taxa within this species.