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Lobelia, Shira Plateau, Tanzania. The lobelia family contains over 750 species of flowering plant, native to both hemispheres. They are mostly small annual plants, but the tall tree-lobelias of East Africa grow for about twenty years and flower only once.

Any of a group of temperate and tropical plants with white to mauve flowers. Lobelias may grow to shrub size but are mostly small annual plants. (Genus Lobelia, family Lobeliaceae.)

The cardinal lobelia (L. cardinalis) of eastern North America has large bright red flowers.



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