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2881

Forb

Native to the Carolinas

Documented growing wild in - NC SC

Uncommon, endemic to the Sandhills Region of NC-SC

Look for it in wet streamheads and seepage slopes, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue?
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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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Lobelia species 1   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Pittman (in prep)
 Lobelia batsonii

 

COMMON NAME:
 Batson's Lobelia, Sandhills Lobelia

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image of Lobelia species 1, Batson's Lobelia, Sandhills Lobelia

Bruce A. Sorrie    bas_lobelia_batsonii1

June    Moore County    NC

Raceme less dense than that of L. elongata, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region.