Lobelia paludosa Nutt.

Lobelia paludosa Nutt. Gen. 2: 75. 1818
Lobelia nudicauUs Raf. Atl. Jour. 147. 1832. (Type from Florida.) Not Lobelia nudicaulis Lam.
1791. Dorlmanna paludosa G. Don. Gen. Hist. 3: 715. 1834. Rapuntiiim paludosum Presl, Prodr. Mon. Lob. 18. 1836.
In habit and vegetative characters hardly separable from L. floridana, but smaller; stem 20-135 cm. high (averaging 50-60 cm.), usually unbranched, often purphsh at base and at bases of leaves; leaves basal, smaller and shorter than in L. floridana (average size about 1 cm. wide by 12 cm. long), usually oblanceolate, short-acute (rarely with an ovate blade and a short petiole); stem-bracts 1-2.5 cm. long (rarely 5 cm.); inflorescence 2-35 era. long (averaging about 15 cm.), loosely few-30-flowered; pedicels rough, not stiffly upright, rather slender, 5-9 mm. long in fruit, with no bracteoles Wsible under a lens; flower-bracts shorter than the pedicels, linear; flower 11-16 ram. long, including hypanthium (averaging 12-13 mm.); corolla light purplish-blue or nearly white, practically glal>rous without, the lower lip densely hirsutepubescent at base within, the tube 4-5 mm. long, fenestrate, the lobes of the lower lip ovate, little shorter than the tube, scarcely reflexed, the two upper lobes lanceolate; filament-tube 3-4.5 mm. long, somewhat deile.ed, the filaments hairy below, connate about half their length; anther-tube 2-3 ram. long, light bluish-gray, the two smaller anthers tufted at tips, the three larger merely pubescent on the backs; hypanthium in anthesis conic, rough, becoming hemispheric in fruit, sometimes acute at base, 3.5-4 mm. in diameter; capsule about two-thirds inferior, longer than broad, 3-6 mm. long; calyx-lobes lanceolate or deltoid, acute, glabrous, entire, or caUose-denticulate, about 3 mm. long; auricles none or very small; seeds as in L. floridana.
Typ8 locauitv: "In deep sphagnose swamps, from Sussex county in Delaware to Georgia," Nutlall (Acad. Phila.!).
Distribution: Southeastern Georgia; throughout peninsular Florida and west to the Apalachicola River.

Lobelia paludosa là loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa chuông. Loài này được Nutt. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1818.