Family:
Campanulaceae
Common Name(s):
Great blue lobelia
Flowering Time:
August to October
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Seeds turn rusty orange; plants begin to senesce and look chlorotic
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
Late September to early October
Seed Cleaning:
None
Storage:
Dry
Restoration Potential:
Low
Notes
Limited to moist open woods and other moist open places (Eilers and Roosa 1994). Germination requires light (Cullina 2000).
Seed output high; no vegetative spread (stems arise from basal offshoots (Fernald 1950); root system fibrous (Runkel and Bull 2009).
Seedlings transplanted into the field had 0.0% survival after two years, with the field site a well drained open woods (Mottl et al. 2006).
