Lobelia cardinalis
Cardinal Flower, Scarlet Lobelia, Cardinal-flower, Cardinalflower
Description
Herbaceous perennial with an upright habit visually reinforced by raceme-like inflorescences bearing flowers with cardinal-red petals, present from July to September and popular with pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies. Rustic, it requires a cool, moist substrate or soil. In areas with a cold winter climate it sheds its aerial part and then vegetates again in spring.
Commercially available with an assortment of varieties that differ mainly in the height attained and the colour shade of the foliage.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Campanulaceae
- Genus
- Lobelia
- Species
- Lobelia cardinalis
Synonyms (31)
- Dortmanna cardinalis
- Dortmanna cordigera
- Dortmanna engelmanniana
- Dortmanna fulgens
- Dortmanna graminea
- Dortmanna longifolia
- Dortmanna phyllostachya
- Dortmanna splendens
- Lobelia atrosanguinea
- Lobelia coccinea
- Lobelia cordigera
- Lobelia formosa
- Lobelia fulgens
- Lobelia graminea
- Lobelia kerneri
- Lobelia longifolia
- Lobelia marryattiae
- Lobelia phyllostachya
- Lobelia porphyrantha
- Lobelia princeps
- Lobelia punicea
- Lobelia refulgens
- Lobelia splendens
- Lobelia texensis
- Rapuntium cardinale
- Rapuntium cordigerum
- Rapuntium fulgens
- Rapuntium gramineum
- Rapuntium longifolium
- Rapuntium splendens
- Tupa ignescens
