Lobelia canbyi
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Photo courtesy Renee Brecht |
Britton & Brown |
| Botanical name: | Lobelia canbyii |
| Common name: | Canby's lobelia |
| Group: | dicot |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Growth type: | forb/herb |
| Duration: | perennial |
| Origin: | native |
| Plant height: | 12 - 40" |
| Foliage: | leaves linear 3/8-2", toothless. Distinguished from the more common L. nuttallii by the inflated ovary. |
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| Flower: | blue to purple flowers on racemes 4-12", bracts at base of flower-stalk |
| Flowering time: | late July- September |
| Habitat: | wet sandy spots in Pine barrens, reaching northern limit of its range |
| Range in New Jersey: | central Pine barrens |
| Heritage ranking, if any: | S3; CMP; Endangered in Maryland and Threatened in Tennessee |
| Distribution: |  |
| Misc. | more robust and taller species than Lobelia nuttallii. canbyi, for Wm. M. Canby, 1831-1904, Delaware botanist who avidly studied Pine Barrens flora. bee pollinated. |
