NameThatPlant.net: Lobelia boykinii

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read about Boykin's Lobelia - and a Plea for Rare Species Research from Linda Chafin and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.

Read more from the South Carolina Plant Conservation Alliance.

Read more about Lobelia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia boykinii FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-010:

Lobelia boykinii FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

Lobelia boykinii

COMMON NAME:
Boykin's Lobelia

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia boykinii FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-010:
Lobelia boykinii FAMILY Campanulaceae

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

2342

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Cypress ponds and depression meadows, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Rare

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Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

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

Flowers in a terminal raceme

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

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