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Light Requirements: full sun/part shade

Soil Moisture: medium/wet

Bloom Color: blue

Bloom Time: July-September

Height: 2-3 ft.

Root Structure: taproot

Deer Resistant? Yes

Black Walnut tolerant? Yes

Grown from local seed? No

New York Flora Distribution Map

Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

From $6.00

I’m a native of New York state and Tompkins county.

Wet soil and part shade is my favorite habitat.

I form clumps, am a short lived perennial that self seeds easily and also forms offsets from the mother plant.

Bees, hummingbirds and butterflies including monarchs will visit my flowers

I bring a splash of bright color in the late summer and early fall that looks lovely with all the yellow around at this time

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