Blue Lobelia - Add some late season color to your garden with this attractive native perennial 

I have these all over they spread like a fire....they are beautiful the bees love them.....I'm glad I planted them.

Your great blue lobeila look awesome! I've got a few wee plants that I've started from seed - fingers crossed I can keep them as happy as yours. I don't have very moist gardens - hope they can handle more normal conditions!

This is why I’m so jealous of people with wet areas and ponds on their properties!

I really appreciate you promoting growing native plant species! 🙏 living in California almost every plant we see is non native and it’s hurting us

It's so helpful to be able to see how this plant looks in a garden! Seed catalogs just don't give me all the info I need, so I really appreciate your videos. By the way, Illinois Wildflowers does list a moth that uses this as a host plant. Faunal Associations: The nectar and pollen of the flowers attract primarily bumblebees and other long-tongued bees (Anthophora spp., Melissodes spp., Svastra spp.). Less common visitors include the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, large butterflies, and Halictid bees. The Halictid bees collect pollen only and they are non-pollinating. The caterpillars of a moth, Enigmogramma basigera (Pink-washed Looper Moth), feed on the foliage of Great Blue Lobelia (Schweitzer & Roberts, 2007). Most mammalian herbivores don't eat this plant because the foliage contains several toxic alkaloids, chief among them being lobeline and lobelanine. These toxic substances produce symptoms that resemble nicotine poisoning. However, it has been reported that deer occasionally eat this plant, perhaps enjoying greater immunity to these toxic substances than other animals. The seeds are too small to be of much value to birds. www.illinoiswildflowers.info/wetland/plants/gb_lobeliax.htm

It's a host plant for he Pink-washed Looper Moth.

You had asked about host plants - according to A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee, both great blue lobeila and cardinal flower are larval host plants to the pink washer looper, the lesser black-letter dart, and red banded leafroller moths. The same author has a US version called A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators by #lorrainejohnson and #sheilacolla. I have the Ontario version and it's the best book I have for native plants.

Great video! I think blue lobelia is so pretty! I'm going to have to go get some photos of it before it goes all the way away for the year

The only info I could find on insect species utilizing lobelia was weevils eating their seeds (still pretty cool)

Why are my cardinal flower leaves the size of my hand?

You should check you audio levels. I noticed your voice recording is quite low compared to the music of the intro.

Great info! I just planted these in the spring and am now starting to enjoy their bloomage. And it's nice that they're now coming into form while my Cardinal flowers are fading. The hummingbirds are now gravitating to them and various bees seem to enjoy. I'm curious about the green pom-pom looking plants next to your Lobelias. IWhat are they?