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§1 Plant

Lobelia spicata Lam. var. spicata

vernacular palespike lobelia — variety · Campanulaceae


USDA
LOSPS4
GBIF
5408750 syn.
Rank
variety
palespike lobelia (Lobelia spicata var. spicata)
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

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 361 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 361 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 361 counties across 17 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 74 N
Iowa view state ↗ 4 N
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 29 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 N
Missouri view state ↗ 56 N
New York view state ↗ 2 N
Ohio view state ↗ 51 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 46 N
Vermont view state ↗ 1 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 12 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 47 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/LOSPS4 ↗

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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