856

Forb
Perennial

Native to North Carolina & Georgia

Documented growing wild in GA NC -

Common in Mountains (rare in NC Piedmont)

Look for it in bottomlands, moist forests, ditches, wet meadows, streambanks, per Weakley's Flora

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...Wet ...Moist ...Variable

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate (basal leaves usually absent or withered at flowering)

FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Blue (rarely 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
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South p162
• Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p146
• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p128
• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p052
• Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p158
• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p402
• Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p186
• Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p244
• Wildflowers of Tennessee p258
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p301
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p169

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (6/30/18):
Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDING PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia siphilitica var. siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-002:
Lobelia siphilitica   FAMILY Campanulaceae

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