| Scientific Name: | Lobelia cardinalis |
| Common Name: | cardinal flower |
| Family Name: | Campanulaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Mixed shrub border, Perennial border, Waterside planting, Wetland - bogs |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Lustrous, Oblanceolate, Ovate, Entire, Serrate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems 60-90(-120)cm tall; leaves alternate, lanceolate, 7-20cm long x 2-5cm wide, margin entire-serrate, green (reddish-purple cvs.); racemes of bright, crimson-red bilabiate flowers ~4cm long, Jul-Sep. | |