Lobelia dregeana A.Dc.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae > Lobelia

Characteristics

Annual herb, up to 150 mm high; glabrous. Flowering stems erect or ascending, leafy. Leaves with short petioles to sessile; blade basally obovate to spathulate, 5-20 x 3-8 mm, apex obtuse or acute, base cuneate, margins mostly dentate towards apex, upper leaf blades narrowly ovate. Flowers: solitary in leaf axils, arranged in a terminal raceme; bracts leaf-like, narrowly ovate; pedicels 7-12 mm long; calyx tube as long as lobes, lobes ovate, acute, entire; corolla 8 mm long, upper lobes narrowly ovate, lower lobes oblong; blue, base with yellowish spots; Oct.-Dec.
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Completely glabrous annual, with ascending or erect stems ± leafy, up to 0.4 m high. Leaves spathulate and cuneate, 5-20 x 3-8 mm, mostly dentate towards tip, obtuse or acute; petioles absent to short. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, arranged in racemes; pedicels 7-12 mm long. Calyx: tube broadly turbinate or almost hemispherical; lobes triangular, fairly acute, entire, 2 mm long. Corolla 8 mm long; tube pale, limb blue, base with yellowish spots; upper lobes narrowly lanceolate, lower lobes oblong. Flowering time Sept.-Dec.
Quite glabrous; stems prostrate or ascending, weak, angular; leaves dentate, lower ones sub-orbicular or obovate, obtuse, petiolate; upper ones subsessile, narrowed at the base, oblong, acute or sublanceolate; flowers loosely racemose; pedicels filiform, 2-3 times longer than the lanceolate-cuneate 2-4-toothed bractea; calyx-tube shortly obconical, about as long as the ovate, acute lobes; corolla 2-3 times longer than the calycine lobes; anthers hairy on the back, the 2 lower bearded.
Sprawling or erect perennial herb, 40-300 mm tall. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, spathulate to cuneate, shallowly toothed above. Flowers 1 per axil of upper leaves, pedicellate, corolla ± 8 mm long, bright to pale blue with white tube, rarely pure white. Fruit glabrous.
Erect or ascending herb, up to 150 mm tall. Flowers in terminal racemes. Stem glabrous. Lower leaves toothed, petioled, obovate, upper leaves lanceolate. Calyx tube as long as ovate, acute lobes. Flowers blue.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.23
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 1-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) 15 - 20
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
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Distribution

Lobelia dregeana world distribution map, present in Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:143211-1
WFO ID wfo-0000815547
COL ID 6QM5G
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Lobelia dregeana Lobelia omphalodoides Dortmanna dregeana Lobelia orabensis Rapuntium dregeanum