Angled Lobelia - native (Lobelia anceps)

Family: Campanulaceae (Bluebell Family)

Occurrence. Uncommon. Wet areas e.g. drainage lines.

Identification:

• it is a small (typically 20cm) semi-erect herb
• the stems have narrow wings (and hence "angled")
• the flowers are bluish-pale purple, and symmetrical about the vertical plane only
• the leaves are almost stalkless and very shallowly toothed.

Lobelia: after Mathias de Lobel, b 1538, a Flemish botanist.