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Lobelia dunnii var. serrata

Dunn's lobelia and Blue Lobelia.

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Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, is here being visited by a Harford Sulfur butterfly.  - grid24_24
Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, is here being visited by a Harford Sulfur butterfly.  - grid24_24
Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, is here being visited by one of the Painted Lady butterflies.  - grid24_24
Amazingly, the Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, is not being bent over by the weight of a visiting Pale  Swallowtail butterfly in the Santa Margarita nursery.  - grid24_24
Even the Skipper butterflies love the nectar of the flowers of Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia. - grid24_24
In this photo you can see more detail of the flowers and inflorescence of Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia. - grid24_24
Life as art is this photo of Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, and its visitor, a Monarch butterfly.  - grid24_24
The hummingbird is out of focus, in this photo, but you can see in the background the object of his/her desire, Lobelia dunnii var. serrata, Dunn's Lobelia, and the secondary background is Ribes speciosum.  - grid24_24
Lobelia serrata, Dunn's Lobelia  with an Orange Sulfur Butterfly, Colias eurthyeme - grid24_24
Blue Lobelia flowers - grid24_24
Blue Lobelia, Lobelia dunnii serrata, is a pretty little perennial with lots of little blue flowers. The plant stays low, around a foot tall. It grows in wet spots in Southern California. Use as a small scale groundcover in among rocks where there is moisture. Good for sun or part-shade. Our mother plants have survived here for years with total neglect in wet and then dry conditions. Every year, when the weather turns to winter, it dies to the ground, to come back each spring. Great butterfly plant. Adult butterflies, large and small, love to sip nectar from the flowers.

Lobelia dunnii var. serrata tolerates sand, clay and seasonal flooding.
Lobelia dunnii var. serrata is great for a butterfly garden.
Foliage of Lobelia dunnii var. serrata is stressdeciduous.
Flower of Lobelia dunnii var. serrata has color blue.

Communities for Lobelia dunnii var. serrata:Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub.

ph: 6.00 to 8.00
usda: 6 to 10
height[m]: 0.10 to 0.50
width[m]: 0.50 to 1.00
rainfall[cm]: 150.00 to 1577.00

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