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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-003:

Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lobelia elongata

 

COMMON NAME:
Purple Lobelia, Streamside Lobelia, Longleaf Lobelia


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image of Lobelia elongata, Purple Lobelia, Streamside Lobelia, Longleaf Lobelia

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_loel_001_lvd

        

image of Lobelia elongata, Purple Lobelia, Streamside Lobelia, Longleaf Lobelia

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_l_elongata3_skipper

September    Richmond County    NC

A dense one-sided raceme of up to 40 flowers (seldom fewer than 10), per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

image of Lobelia elongata, Purple Lobelia, Streamside Lobelia, Longleaf Lobelia

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_l_elongata3_skipperb

September    Richmond County    NC

Corolla 2-2.5cm long, tubular - 2 flaring lobes above, 3 below forming a lip, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-003:
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lobelia elongata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

2896

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: River and stream margins, floodplain forests, marshes, bogs, pine savannas, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Carolina Coastal Plain, uncommon in GA Coastal Plain (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
5 stamens, completely united
Bisexual

Flowers in a terminal raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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