OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

Lobelia siphilitica

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

Lobelia siphilitica

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lobelia siphilitica var. ludoviciana

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica

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

Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-002:

Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

Lobelia siphilitica

 

COMMON NAME:
Great Blue Lobelia


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image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm120815_574

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm120815_574b

August    Haywood County    NC

Corneille Bryan Native Garden

1" bright blue flowers with a white throat stripe, per All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999).

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm190914_1589

September    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm190914_1598

September    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Lobelia lvs w obscure whitish callus-tipped & oft irregular or divergent teeth, per Weakley's Flora.

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm190914_1600

September    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Leaves elliptic to lanceolate or oblanceolate, irregularly crenate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm190914_1601

September    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Corolla's underside pinstriped with broad white and narrow blue-violet lines, per Weakley's Flora (2020).

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm190914_1611

September    Swain County    NC

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

Steve Marlow    snm140906_035b

September    Jackson County    NC

Creekside/Riverside

Calyx lobes 6-12mm long, denticulate & ciliate, base auriculate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

Steve Marlow    snm140906_037

September    Jackson County    NC

Creekside/Riverside

image of Lobelia siphilitica, Great Blue Lobelia

JK Marlow    jkm111008_901

October    Jackson County    NC

Balsam Mountain Preserve

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

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

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lobelia siphilitica var. ludoviciana

INCLUDING Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica

INCLUDING Aquatic & Wetland Plants of Southeastern US (Godfrey & Wooten, 1979 & 1981)
Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-002:
Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

856

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Bottomlands, moist forests, ditches, wet meadows, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue (rarely white)
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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