Common Name: great lobeliaScientific Name: Lobelia siphilitica L., Lobelia syphiliticaFamily Name: Lobeliaceae - Bluebell FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cyclenative perennial, reproducing by seed Stemsupright, usually simple or occasionally branched, stout, leafy, smooth or slightly pubescent, ridged, milky sap Leavesalternate, oval to lanceolate, smooth or slightly pubescent, sessile, margins tooth irregularly, tips pointed, milky sap Flowers5-petaled forming tube, pale purple to bright blue, irregular, two lipped – 2 petals above 3 below, lower lip with white spots above and striped with white below, upper lip curved backwards; racemes, leaf like bracts