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Lobelia Linnaeus. Common name: Lobelia.

Contributed by D.D. Spaulding, T.W. Barger, and B.A. Sorrie

Key to Lobelia

A genus of over 400 species, herbs, shrubs, trees, cosmopolitan.

ID notes: Vegetative Lobelia can be recognized by their milky sap, and the alternate leaves with obscure, whitish, callus-tipped, and often irregular or divergent teeth.

References: Bowden (1982); Carter, Baker, & Jenkins (2024) In Weakley et al. (2024a); Lammers In Kadereit & Jeffrey (2007); McVaugh (1936a); McVaugh (1940a) In Woodson & Schery (1940); Pittman & Sorrie (2020); Rosatti (1986); Spaulding & Barger (2016); Spaulding, Barger, & Horne (2016); Thompson & Lammers (1997); Virginia Botanical Associates (2023). Show full citations.

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image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Lobelia feayana | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Jim Fowler | Lobelia cardinalis var. cardinalis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lobelia spicata CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© harrylurling, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND), uploaded by harrylurling | Lobelia dortmanna source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Floyd A. Griffith | Lobelia apalachicolensis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Lobelia cardinalis var. cardinalis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Erik Danielson | Lobelia inflata source | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Lobelia paludosa | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Floyd A. Griffith | Lobelia apalachicolensis | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware | Lobelia siphilitica CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Scott Ward | Lobelia glandulosa | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Lobelia nuttallii | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Alan M. Cressler | Lobelia puberula | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Bruce Sorrie | Lobelia boykinii | Original Image ⭷

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