WILD FLOWERS BLUE AND PURPLE. 
the corolla, beyond which extends the greenish white. 
pistil. The green calyx has five narrow parts. The 
Hairbells are found in dry or moist, rocky cliffs or in 
meadows and uplands generally from Labrador to 
Alaska, south to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois 
and Nebraska, and westward in the mountains to 
Arizona and California. Also in Europe and Asia. 
GREAT, OR BLUE LOBELIA. 
Lobelia sipbilitica. Lobelia F amily. 
The bright blue flowers of this handsome Lobelia are 
found commonly in low, moist or wet soil, generally 
along streams from July to October. The usually 
single stalk is rather stout, very leafy, sparingly hairy, 
and grows from one to three feet high from short, 
perennial offshoots. The thin, light green leaves 
are slightly hairy, oval to lance-shaped and irregularly 
toothed. The upper ones clasp the stalk alternately. 
The attractive flowers are arranged in a long, dense, 
terminal, leafy, wand-like spike, and the stiff, hairy, 
green calyx has five long, slender parts. They are 
formed similar to those of the Red Lobelia, but the 
lobes are much shorter, and the stamen tube does not 
stand out beyond the corolla. They are found from 
Maine and Ontario to Minnesota and Dakota, and 
south to Georgia, Louisiana and Kansas. 
PALE SPIKED LOBELIA 
Lobélia spicata. Lobelia Family. 
The very slender, erect, wand-like spikes of this 
pale-flowered Lobelia are found here and there im 
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