lobelia
1
8.7
- noun
- /loʊˈbiːliə/
:
lobelia
- In the garden, bright blue lobelia added a splash of color among the green foliage.
- blue lobelia
- lobelia flower
- great blue lobelia
Examples
-
Fall asters, boneset, marsh marigolds, jewelweed, and grand lobelia are blooming in the wildlife corridors we established along the small streams.
Blog text (30) -
And for pleasure, sapphire blue lobelia.
Fiction book (1990) -
Only she and the fat man sat there, waiting it out by the retaining wall, electric-blue lobelia rising from the flower boxes behind them.
Fiction book (1997) -
She must stay here in the shade, the lobelia gushing over the cinder blocks.
Fiction book (1997) -
We've got lobelias, probably Lobelia tupa for the drier soils, and Lobelia cardinalis for moist soils.
-
A lobelia, pue, that grows in the swamp has a woody stem up to three feet tall and up to three inches in diameter, in contrast to lobelias elsewhere in the United States, which are nonwoody wildflowers.
Academic text (1995) -
She planted clusters of lobelia to attract butterflies during the summer months.
-
The vibrant lobelia bloomed beautifully along the garden path, enchanting every visitor.
Compounds
- Specialized
A tall plant from North America that grows in wet places with bright red flowers that attract hummingbirds
- Specialized
A water plant with soft leaves under water and blue flowers above the surface
- Specialized
A North American plant with small blue flowers and puffy seed pods once used as medicine to help relax muscles
- Specialized
A tall, upright plant with dense spikes of blue flowers that grows in wet places
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants with bright, tube-shaped flowers often grown in gardens
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lobelia takes its name from a botanist called Lobelius, who studied plants in the 1500s. A helpful way to remember it is that the flower is simply 'named after' that person, so Lobelia is the name for that group of flowering plants.