Lobelia siphilitica
| Great blue lobelia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lobelioideae |
| Genus: | Lobelia |
| Species: | L. siphilitica L. |
| 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
- ↑ "Lobelia siphilitica". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
- ↑ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- 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, doi:10.3732/ajb.93.4.531, PMID 21646213
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