Great Blue Lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Blue flowers from July into October, worked by digger bees and sweat bees. It grows wild in 78 of Kentucky’s 120 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
- 6 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
Heartleaf Aster
Calico Aster
New Jersey Tea
Bluestem Goldenrod
Sweet Goldenrod
Wrinkle-leaf Goldenrod
New England Aster
Black-eyed Susan
Facts from the Quercus record for Lobelia siphilitica.