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Lobelia oligophylla is a mat-forming subshrub from the Andes of Ecuador to Tierra del Fuego, grown for its pink star-shaped flowers. It needs cool, moist, humus-rich soil that never dries out, making it suited to pond edges and shaded rock gardens.
Lobelia oligophylla is an ornamental plant in the Campanulaceae family.
It can be found from the Ecuadorean Andes to Tierra del Fuego, in moist, usually open places.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lobelia oligophylla 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.
