Lobelia Plant Net. Thrives in full sun or part shade in organically rich evenly moist well-drained soils. Cardinal flower Lobelia cardinalis also called Queen Victoria is a very visually striking unique flower belonging to the bellflower Campanulaceae family.
Quite an architectural plant which adds vertical interest to the landscape. Found in shaded woodlands and moist waterways Lobelia Siphilitica prefers moist soils with the clay your other flowers cant stand. Perfect for moist locations Lobelia x speciosa Starship Deep Rose Cardinal Flower is a compact clump-forming herbaceous perennial with strictly upright black stems boasting long spires of two-lipped deep rose pink flowers in midsummer to early fall.
Stems erect and mostly few-branched or prostrate monoecious or dioecious often with milky sap usually with a tap root rarely with adventitious roots.
Indian Tobacco puke weed. Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant as an entheogenic emetic and a dermatological and respiratory aid. De lobelia houdt van een zonnige plek en een vochtige aarde. Erect to shortly decumbent herb usually.