Lobelia siphilitica

Lobelia siphilitica L. (N-Am.) – A very rare and probably always ephemeral escape from cultivation. First collected around 1930 in an estate in Jette (as Campanula spec.). More recently also seen in Achel in the valley of riverlet Warnbeek in 2004 and by a path in an abandoned camping near Mol in 2008. In 2011 also seen in Dorinne (Yvoir).

Lobelia siphilitica, Mol, abandoned camping, September 2009, R. Barendse

Herbarium specimen

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith