Greetings! This is my first post on this forum. I participate in another forum on another site that is more for fun where we post some tiny part of a plant and the others guess what it is. Sometime though we encounter something we are all unsure of and this is one of those plants. It is growing in a garden in Nanoose on Vancouver Island. We decided somewhat uncertainly that it is a salvia but cannot find anything that looks quite like it. Can anyone out there help with this ID? These are clickable thumbnails.
Karin So weird I was just paging one by one thru my plant book and had just stopped and lobelia and was wondering if it was some sort of that and there was your message. Thank you!
Karin THis is a pic of the flower before blooming. Somehow it seems different from the Cardinal flower. Is it another lobelia? Thanks!
The buds do look about right. Here's a list of Lobelia species: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/lif...agnoliopsida/campanulaceae/lobelia/index.html I don't recall what mine is, which is why I didn't give a second name, but upon studying the list and searching the internet a bit I think it is a selection of L. cardinalis. The red foliaged ones known as Queen Victoria and Elm Fire seem to both be L. fulgens. L. siphilitica is blue.