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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

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



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia floridana   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Keys, distribution, and taxonomic notes for the lobelias (Lobelia, Campanulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding & Barger, 2016)

Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)

Lobelia floridana

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

Lobelia floridana

 

COMMON NAME:
Florida Lobelia


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image of Lobelia floridana, Florida Lobelia

Alan S. Weakley    asw_147606631584953

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

image of Lobelia floridana, Florida Lobelia

Alan S. Weakley    asw_147606631584953b

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

Note that the calyx has small auricles and the corolla tube lacks slit-like openings, per Keys, distribution, and taxonomic notes for the lobelias of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding & Barger, 2016).

image of Lobelia floridana, Florida Lobelia

Alan S. Weakley    asw_2162557487264596

April        FL

Apalachicola National Forest

Leaves flat, larger leaves 10-30cm long, per Weakley's Flora (2022).

 

 

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia floridana   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Keys, distribution, and taxonomic notes for the lobelias (Lobelia, Campanulaceae) of Alabama and adjacent states (Spaulding & Barger, 2016)
Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lobelia floridana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lobelia floridana

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

 

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4756

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Wet pine savannas and flatwoods, depression ponds, per Weakley's Flora

Native to Coastal Plain of North Carolina & Georgia

Rare in Coastal Plain of GA (historically in NC, but not recently seen)

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate (reduced upward)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Light blue, white?
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
5 stamens, completely united
Bisexual

Flowers in a terminal raceme

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall?
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



 


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