410 LOBELIACEAE (LOBELIA FAMILY) 
TALL BELLFLOWER 
Campédnula americana, L. 
Native. Annual or biennial. Propagates by seeds. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed-lime: August to September. 
Range: New Brunswick to South Dakota, southward to Georgia, 
Arkansas, and Kansas. 
Habitat: Moist, rich soil; woodland borders, thickets along streams, 
damp grasslands. 
One of the most stately and handsome of our wild flowers, a 
weed only when it enters the meadows and pastures. Stem erect, 
slender, finely grooved, sometimes attaining six feet in height but 
oftener two or three feet tall, usually simple but sometimes with 
slender ascending branches. Leaves large, thin, dark green, the 
lower ones ovate with rounded or abruptly narrowed bases and 
petioles nearly half as long as the blades, the upper ones oblong 
. to Jance-shaped, short-petioled or sessile; all toothed and pointed, 
rather drooping on the stalk. Flowers in terminal racemes one 
‘to two feet long, interrupted and leafy; corolla pale blue or almost 
white, about an inch broad, the five deep lobes spread nearly 
wheel-shaped, their edges slightly wavy ; style very much exserted 
and declined, with its three-cleft tip curved upward. Capsule 
three-celled, slenderly top-shaped, smooth, erect, sessile, opening by 
valves near the summit. 
Means of control 
Close cutting before the earliest flowers mature. 
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GREAT LOBELIA 
Lobélia syphilitica, L. 
Native. Perennial. Propagated by seeds and by short offsets. 
Time of bloom: July to October. 
Seed-time: August to November. 
Range: Maine and Ontario to South Dakota and Colorado, south- 
ward to Georgia and Louisiana. 
Habitat: Swamps, wet meadows, and along streams and ditches. 
Like all its family, the juices of this plant are acrid and poison- 
ous. Stem one to three feet tall, rather stout, slightly angled, 
