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Lobelia dortmanna
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Lobelia dortmanna, Dortmann's cardinalflower or water lobelia, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family Campanulaceae. This stoloniferous herbaceous perennial aquatic plant with basal leaf-rosettes and flower stalks grows to 0.7–2 m (2.3–6.6 ft) tall. The flowers are 1–2 cm long, with a five-lobed white to pale pink or pale blue corolla, produced in groups of one to ten on an erect raceme held above the water surface. The fruit is a capsule 5–10 mm long and 3–5 mm wide, containing numerous small seeds.
- Family
- Campanulaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lobelia dortmanna
- Slug
- lobelia-dortmanna
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Campanulaceae
- Genus
- Lobelia
- Species
- dortmanna
- Wikidata QID
- Q158068
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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