What plant is that?
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Photo credit: © Francis R. Underwood 2011
Photo credit: © Francis R. Underwood 2011
This month’s mystery plant is a perennial with red, two-lipped flowers. The upper lip is two-lobed and the lower lip three-lobed. It grows from three to five feet tall. Its favorite habitat is wet areas along streams and in swamps and it blooms from July to September. It belongs to the same family of plants as the mystery plant for March 2011.
It’s. . .
Botanical Name: |
Lobelia cardinalis |
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Common Name: |
Cardinal Flower or Red Lobelia | |
Family: |
Campanulaceae (Bluebell Family) | |
Habitat: |
Wet areas along streams, swamps |