![]() ![]() Place them in a low spot in the yard or border to help keep them moist, and plant them with ferns, hostas, rudbeckias, and asters. They need some protection from midday or afternoon sun, and thus tend to do well at a wood's edge or at the base of a tree. Growing TipsĬardinal flowers grow best in moist, rich, light, slightly acid soil, but can survive in other habitats as long as they are kept moist. Hybrids are not as winter hardy as the cardinalis species and so may have to be grown as annuals. x speciosa cultivars with colorful names and red themes (of course!). cardinalis with other species of Lobelia, primarily L. Bradley of Hamilton, New York, who specialized in collecting white-flowered forms of colored flowers in nature. They are said to "pull hummingbirds from the sky." In fact, their blooming period corresponds especially well with the southern migration of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to Mexico and Central America for the winter.ĭiscovery and cultivation of the alba form of L. The flowers are especially adapted to pollination by hummingbirds. A fringed "white beard" protrudes from the tip of the anthers. The flower, are fused and encircle the style, or female organ, extending outįar beyond the lips. ![]() Bright blue anthers, the pollen-shedding male parts of The upper lip is split into two long lobes, and the lower lip is deeplyĬleft into three parts. The flowers themselves have a velvety texture and a tubular shape, with two Theĭeep green leaves and rosettes often have a bronzy or reddish tint, especially It grows from basal rosettes, or low-growing clumps, and has 4- toĦ-inch lance-shaped leaves that alternate up the 2- to 5-foot-tall stems. With scarlet flowers (technically called florets) from July to October in moistĪreas along streams, drainage ditches, wet meadows, swamps, and other low ![]() The plant produces unbranched slender spikes called racemes that are covered It is a member of the Campanulaceae or bellflower family. Southward to Florida and Texas and across the southern plains and mountain The cardinal flower's natural range is New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario Mathias de L'Obel (1538-1616), who sometimes used a "latinized" form of his Monk and naturalist who named the plant genus after the Belgian botanist, Of Lobelia in keeping with earlier work of Charles Plumier, a French Linnaeus to adopt the species name cardinalis. The royal red miters of the Roman Catholic cardinals appear to have inspired Plantation in America is seated." The plant was a grand success in the gardens That he had received a shipment of seeds from Paris for "the rich crimsonĬardinal groweth neere the river in Canada, where the French Widely used in Europe by 1629, when the English botanist John Parkinson wrote Sent the plant back to France in the mid-1620s. Lobelia cardinalis was first reported by explorers in Canada, who ![]()
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