Family: Lobeliaceae
Plant: A small slender, erect herb up to 40cm high – its stems are sometimes reddish.
Flowers: Deep blue, tubular 5-lobed 15-25mm long fan-shaped flowers with 2 tiny erect and 3 spreading petals. The flowers are borne along one side of the stem.
Flowering: July-February.
Fruit: Ovoid capsule swollen on its upper side 4-7mm long and 3-5mm diameter.
Leaves: Thin, soft, alternate, irregularly-toothed narrow ovate leaves 1-4cm long and 3-10mm wide and mainly borne around base of the plant.
Habitat: In sheltered locations in dry sclerophyll forest - often noticeable after a bushfire.
Features: Deep blue irregular flowers on winged stems in solitary leaf axils.
Name:
Lobelia After the Flemish physician and botanist Mathias de L’Obel
Dentata From Latin = toothed (referring to its leaf margins)
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Type |
Herb |
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Flowers |
Form |
Irregular, Tubular/Bell-shaped |
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Colour(s) |
Blue |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
5 |
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Flowering Month |
1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Capsule |
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Colour |
Green, Brown |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Alternate |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval, Linear |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Toothed/Serrated |
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Attachment |
Unstalked |
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Other Features |
- |
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Bark |
- |
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Habitat |
Dry sclerophyll forest |
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