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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Partial Sun - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Mar, Apr, May
Plant Type
Annuals, Perennials, Annual, Poisonous, Annual or sometimes perennial, decumbent to erect herb, 5–70 cm. long or tall.
Lifespan
Annual
Flower
Flowers are white, scarlet, or blue, 5-parted, tubular and irregular-shaped with 2 lips, Flowers in lax racemes; pedicels up to 5–45 mm. long, glabrous or occasionally pubescent; bracts similar to upper stem leaves, much shorter to equalling the pedicels; bracteoles c. 0·4· 1·2 mm. long, linear, at or near the base of the pedicel, occasionally absent.
Fruit
inconspicuous and not showy, Capsule 8–10–nerved with 2 valves ± 1 mm. long, inferior part of capsule 3–8 mm. long.
Benefits
Attracts
Butterflies
Pollinators
Taxonomy
Order
Asterales
Family
Campanulaceae
Genus
Lobelia