Lobelia spicata – Pale-spiked Lobelia (BTF)

Ecosystem Services:
(B)-Birds                                             (B&B)-Birds & Butterflies

(BTF)-Butterflies                             (BW)-Black Walnut Resistant

(DR)-Deer Resistant                      (DRGHT)-Drought Resistant

(EC)-Erosion Control                    (EVR)-Evergreen

(FC)-Fall Color                                 (FRG)-Fragrant

(GRD)-Groundcover                      (H)-Host plant

(HMR)-Hummingbirds                (M)-Mammals

(MTH)-Moths                                   (N)-Nectar

(NB)-Native Bees                            (NST)-Nesting Material

(OP)-Other pollinators                 (RR)-Rabbit Resistant

(SHWY)-Showy                                (SPC)-Specimen Plant

This is an erect, annual or perennial herbs; leaves alternate, simple; flowers white, scarlet, or blue, 5-parted, tubular and irregular-shaped with 2 lips; fruit a capsule.

It blooms summer into fall

The foliage consists of 1 to 3.5 in. lance-shaped or narrowly ovate, nearly toothless, light green basal leaves with a simple stem that is densely downy toward the base but smooth above

The flower is an elongated, slender spike-like cluster of small pale purplish-blue to bluish-white flowers; two narrow lobes above and three wider lobes below that form a lip

They are often found in meadows, fields, thickets, and in dry sandy soil or in the forest or natural area, in moist woods and fields, the edge of streams; in the landscape, in flower gardens, cultivated herbaceous annuals and perennials