Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Blue flowers from July into October, worked by digger bees and sweat bees. It grows wild in 21 of Mississippi’s 82 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to full sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 2.8 ft to 4 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Blue, Jul to Oct
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Caterpillars
- 5 kinds of caterpillars
- Bees
- 30 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Digger bee (Anthophora terminalis), Sweat bee (Lasioglossum admirandum), Small carpenter bee (Ceratina cockerelli), Small carpenter bee (Ceratina floridana)
Grows well with
New Jersey Tea
Calico Aster
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
Small's Ragwort
Black-eyed Susan
Robin's-plantain
Facts from the Quercus record for Lobelia siphilitica.