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Lobelia amoena
Southern lobelia is a native wildflower of the southeastern US, growing in moist woodland edges, seeps and streambanks. It is grown in gardens and rain gardens where the soil stays damp.
Lobelia amoena, commonly known as southern lobelia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae native to the southeastern United States.
Southern lobelia is found from western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee south through western South Carolina to central Georgia and eastern/central Alabama. There is also a disjunct population in the Florida Panhandle and along the coastal plain of Georgia and South Carolina. It grows in floodplain forests, seeps, marshes, and along streambanks
Aberdare Lobelia · Lobelia alsinoides · Apache lobelia · Trailing Lobelia · Lawn Lobelia · Pale lobelia · Lobelia archeri · Lobelia arnhemiaca · Boykin's lobelia · Shortleaf lobelia · Tall Lobelia · Cardinalflower
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lobelia amoena by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
