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§1 Plant

Lobelia spicata Lam. var. leptostachys (A. DC.) Mack. & Bush

vernacular palespike lobelia — variety · Campanulaceae


USDA
LOSPL
GBIF
5408750 syn.
Rank
variety
palespike lobelia (Lobelia spicata var. leptostachys)
Platephotograph · Carson source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Campanulaceae Juss.
Genus
Lobelia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 209 counties across 12 states/territories
Legend Native · 209 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 209 counties across 12 states/territories.

Illinois view state ↗ 52 N
Indiana view state ↗ 31 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 28 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 6 N
Missouri view state ↗ 57 N
Ohio view state ↗ 23 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 5 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/LOSPL ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5408750 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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