| Scientific Name: | Lobelia x speciosa |
| Common Name: | lobelia |
| Family Name: | Campanulaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (grown as), Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Attract butterflies, Bedding plant, Container planting, Perennial border, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate but may clusters at nodes; flower bilabiate (3 petals hanging like tongues, 2 more upright like open arms). | |