Great blue lobelia facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Great blue lobelia |
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Lobelia
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siphilitica
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Lobelia siphilitica, the great blue lobelia, great lobelia, or blue cardinal flower is a plant species within the family Campanulaceae. 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. It is a short lived perennial (with each plant living for only a few years).
Although self-compatible, a flower is unable to offer pollen to itself and it must be pollinated by insects (primarily bees in the genus Bombus).
See also
In Spanish: Lobelia siphilitica para niños
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