Florida Lobelia

Lobelia floridana Chapm. Bot. Gaz. 3 : 9. 1878
Lobelia paludosa var. floridana A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2': 393. 1878.
Stem erect, up to about 5 mm. in diameter at base, unbranched, or with several stout upright or spreading branches, glabrous, 50-150 cm. high (averaging 80-100 cm.), green or stramineous, less often purplish at base; leaves basal, more or less erect, 1-10, glabrous, strapshaped, fleshy, oblanceolate or lanceolate, acute or obtuse at tip, long drawn-out at base into a margined petiole, the blades up to 2.5 cm. wide by 40 cm. long (averaging about 1 cm. wide by 25 cm. long), entire or shallowly crenate, or dentate with callose teeth; stem-leaves bractlike, 3-4, lanceolate, 2-3 cm. long, acute, distant, callose-denticulate, the lowest sometimes larger, up to 0.5 cm. wide by 8 cm. long; inflorescence not secund, 10-50 cm. long, loosely or rather densely IO-40-flowered; pedicels stout, rough, more or less upright, 3-6 mm. long in fruit, each with a pair of inconspicuous bracteoles at the base; flower-bracts glabrous, linear, shorter than the pedicels or equaling them, inconspicuous; flower 13-20 mm. long (averaging 15-16 mm.), including hypanthium; corolla pale purphsh to nearly white, usually pubescent without, the lower lip densely hirsute-pubescent at base within, the tube 8-9 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure (rarely fenestrate), the lobes of the lower lip ovate, short-acute, reflexed, shorter than the tube, the two upper lobes lanceolate, erect; filament-tube 6-11 mm. long (averaging 7.5-9 mm.), strongly deflexed, the filaments pubescent near base, cotmate more than half their length; anther-tube about 3 mm. long, light bluish-gray, the two smaller anthers tufted at the tips, the three larger merely pubescent on the backs; hypanthium in anthesis flattish or conic, usually rough as seen under a lens, becoming hemispheric in fruit (sometimes acute at base), about 4 mm. in diameter or larger; capsule about two-thirds inferior, longer than broad, 5-7 mm. long; calyx-lobes broadly-lanceolate or deltoid, 2-6 mm. long, glabrous, acute, usually callose-denticulate (often obscurely so); auricles very small, triangular; seeds brown, ovoid, 0.6-0.7 mm. long.
Typb locality: Western Florida, Chapman (Mo. Bot. Card.!).
Distribution: Near the Gulf Coast, western Louisiana to western Florida; Wilmington, North Carolina.

Lobelia floridana, commonly known as Florida lobelia, is a species of flowering plant in the bellflower family (Campanulaceae) native the southeastern United States. It was first formally named in 1878 by Alvan Wentworth Chapman.