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GREAT BLUE LOBELIA
Lobelia siphilitica
“The largest and most showy, but not often cultivated, of the Lobelias,
is L.siphilitica, a stoutstemmed, many-flowered species, which is
chiefly found near springs; the flowers are full blue and the spike
much crowded; the height about eighteen or twenty inches; leaves light
green” writes Catharine Parr Traill of this native beauty. Once thought
to cure syphilis. Likes dampish ground and part shade though will
tolerate full sun and drier soil. Ht. 60 cm Sp. 30 cm D.S. fall or
early spring. Easy. Zones 3-8 II N.
$3.00
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