Lobelia siphilitica

Great blue lobelia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily: Lobelioideae
Genus: Lobelia
Species: L. siphilitica
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Binomial name
Lobelia siphilitica

Lobelia siphilitica, the great blue lobelia[1] or great lobelia,[2] is a plant species within the Campanulaceae family. It is a herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. Growing up to three feet tall, it lives in zones 4 to 9 in moist to wet soils. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer.

It blooms from August to October.[3] It is a short lived perennial (with each plant living for only a few years).[3]

Although self-compatible, a flower is unable to offer pollen to itself and it must be pollinated by insects (primarily bees in the Bombus genus).[3]

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References

  1. "Lobelia siphilitica". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  3. 1 2 3 Caruso, C. M. (2006), "Plasticity of inflorescence traits in Lobelia siphilitica (Lobeliaceae) in response to soil water availability", American Journal of Botany, 93 (4): 531–8, PMID 21646213, doi:10.3732/ajb.93.4.531
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