OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lobelia georgiana   FAMILY Campanulaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia amoena var. glandulifera   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-003?:

Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Lobelia glandulifera

 

COMMON NAME:
Georgia Lobelia, southern lobelia


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image of Lobelia georgiana, Georgia Lobelia, southern lobelia

Samantha Tessel    sam091224_1664

September    Greenville County    SC

Clear Creek Heritage Preserve

Some calyx segments usually with slender, flexuous teeth (check several flowers), per Weakley's Flora (2025).

image of Lobelia georgiana, Georgia Lobelia, southern lobelia

Samantha Tessel    sam091224_1667

September    Greenville County    SC

Clear Creek Heritage Preserve

Uppermost leaves distinctly sender-toothed with callus or gland-tipped teeth, per Weakley's Flora (2025).

image of Lobelia georgiana, Georgia Lobelia, southern lobelia

Samantha Tessel    sam091224_1668

September    Greenville County    SC

Clear Creek Heritage Preserve

Leaves usually thick with parchmentlike texture & often with bluish to gray-green sheen when dried, per Weakley's Flora (2025).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Lobelia georgiana   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Lobelia amoena var. glandulifera   FAMILY Campanulaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 178-06-003?:
Lobelia elongata   FAMILY Campanulaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Lobelia glandulifera

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4532

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: swamps, floodplain forests, wet places, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Uncommon in Coastal Plain & NC Piedmont (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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

LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate

FLOWER:
Blue-violet
Bilaterally symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
2-lipped 5-lobed corolla
5 stamens, completely united
Bisexual

Flowers in a terminal raceme

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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