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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lobelia elongata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
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Read more about Purple Lobelia at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_loel_001_lvd
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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).
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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
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)
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
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- All About South Carolina Wildflowers (Midgley, 1999) p195
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p400
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry (Porcher, 1995) p126
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p102
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p144
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p263
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