Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
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SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-008:
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
COMMON NAME:
Indian-tobacco, Pukeweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_loin_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0407y_07
July Greenville County SC
Stem hairy and often branched, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm120704_436b
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
Bracts longer than the pedicels. Calyx lobes linear, 2-7mm long, entire, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9596
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9598
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0151
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0153
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
The calyx becomes inflated in fruit, per Newcomb's Wildflower Guide.
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JK Marlow jkm120804_132b
August Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
Leaves mostly sessile, 2-3" long, ovate, with toothed margins, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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Keith Bradley kab_lobelia_inflata_2910
August Macon County NC
Nantahala National Forest
Flowers in leafy racemes; corolla tube 2-4mm long, longest lobes 2.5-4mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0410k_19
October Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm211027_4610
October Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-008:
Lobelia inflata
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
854
Forb
Annual
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (rare in Coastal Plain) (rare in GA Piedmont)
Look for it in fields, meadows, gardens, open woodlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue-violet/ Bluish-white
Bisexual
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
5 stamens, completely united
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 p195
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p128
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p150
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p052
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p401
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States P103
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p245
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p257
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p300
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p170