Scientific Name: Lobelia irrigua

Common Name: salt lobelia

Family Classification (Clade): Eudicots

Family: Campanulaceae

Form Description: Slender perennial herb resembling Lobelia pratioides but hairless in all parts. Stems leafy, a few cm long.

Flowers: Short stems or without stems, in axils with very small corolla 2-3mm long.

Fruit: Capsule – oval-globular.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral HighlandsDorsetFlindersGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayKing IslandLatrobeMeander ValleyWest Coast
Plant Communities
Saltmarsh
Habitat Notes

Occasional in brackish marshes.

Site Tolerance

Moist, Waterlogged

Soil Tolerance

Nutrient-poor, Poorly-drained

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Division

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