Lobelia dunnii var. serrata

Dunn's lobelia

Family: Campanulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Dunn's lobelia is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada Mountains (Mariposa County), southern Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, and Peninsular Ranges on cliff seeps and falls at elevations of 30 to 1,850 meters. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces distinctive blue flowers with hairy corollas, forming tubes 12 to 19 millimeters long. Growing with decumbent light green stems 20 to 85 centimeters long and less than 4 millimeters in diameter, it spreads via underground rhizomes. Its stems feature delicate blue flowers with a unique anther tube that has triangular bristles at the tips of two shorter anthers. The plant forms a long-lived perennial herb with a spreading growth habit characteristic of moist cliff environments.

Habitat: Falls, seeps of cliffs

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: 30-1850 m

Bioregions: c SNH (Mariposa Co.), SCoRO, TR, PR

California counties: San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Orange, Riverside, Mariposa

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