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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (2/8/20):
Lobelia puberula
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia puberula var. puberula
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
INCLUDING
PLANTS National Database
Lobelia puberula var. simulans
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-006:
Lobelia puberula
FAMILY
Campanulaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Lobelia puberula
COMMON NAME:
Downy Lobelia, Hairy Lobelia
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JK Marlow jkm190618_9256
June Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120704_526
July Greenville County SC
Ashmore Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm190719_9954
July Transylvania County NC
Pisgah National Forest: Pisgah Ranger District
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JK Marlow jkm0508g_20b
August Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120830_154
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
Leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, coarsely to finely dentate to serrate, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm120830_154b
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
Lobelia lvs w obscure whitish callus-tipped & oft irregular or divergent teeth, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120830_160
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120830_167b
August Henderson County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
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JK Marlow jkm140816_770
August Jackson County NC
High Hampton Inn
Flowers borne in racemes [thus the terminal flowers mature last], per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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Steve Marlow snm140816_046
August Jackson County NC
High Hampton Inn
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JK Marlow jkm0409b_27b
September Greenville County SC
Roadside
A fine-hairy stem and a one-sided raceme of purplish-blue flowers 3/4" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0409b_27c
September Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes lanceolate, rarely linear, 5-10mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0409b_28
September Greenville County SC
Roadside
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Patrick D. McMillan pdml_puberulab
September
Flowers lack the inflated tube and striping of L. siphilitica, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.