Names and Myths

Lobelia  Of Lobel (a Flemish botanist Matthias de Lobel 1538-1616)

puberula puperulent

Description

Summer One-sided flower spike, flowers blue often with white center about 3/4” long. These flowers are intermediate in size between the great lobelias where the flowers are overr 1 inch long, and spiked lobelis where the flowers are normally less then 4/5^ths of an inch long. Stem is covered with fine downy hairs. Fields and Woods