Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis

Picture Taken August 21, 2001

This showy plant grows to be 2-4 feet tall. The brilliant scarlet flowers are 2-lipped, with the long stamens projecting through a slit in the upper lip. The alternate leaves are toothed. It grows along stream banks and in moist gardens, and blooms July through October.

Lobelia cardinalis

Campanulaceae

Harebell Family

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