Lobelia siphilitica
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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. |
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| Lobelia siphilitica |
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The Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States. Growing up to a meter 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.[1] It is a short lived perennial (with each plant living for only a few years).[1]
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).[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c 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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