Characteristics
Lobelia inflata L.
Indian tobacco
Dirt and logging roads; cut forests, forest clearings, and thin forests; and gravel bars of streams and disturbed areas. Often along paths, on tip up mounds, or other disturbed soils in mesic to dry-mesic forested sites. Occasionally in drier sites.
Forb/herb
Annual
Vascular
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Native FACU-, FAC (NWPL) FACU (NWPL EMP) FACU (NWPL NCNE) S5 (State Rank) G5 (Global Rank)
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Classification
Eudicots
Asterales
Lobelia inflata L. - Indian tobacco
Citation
Lobelia inflata L.
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Species Distribution Map

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Plant Photos
Photo by: Andrew Nelson - Rice Creek Field Sta., SUNY Oswego Photo taken: Oswego County, NY: 30 Jul 2003 - 1
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Photo by: Andrew Nelson - Rice Creek Field Sta., SUNY Oswego Photo taken: Oswego County, NY: 30 Jul 2003 - 1
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Photo by: Andrew Nelson - Rice Creek Field Sta., SUNY Oswego Photo taken: Oswego County, NY: 30 Jul 2003 - 1
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Photo by: Selma Rosenthal. Photo taken: Onondaga Co., NY: 10 Nov 2015 - 7
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Photo by: Selma Rosenthal. Photo taken: Onondaga Co., NY: 16 Aug 2014 - 7
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