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Lobelia inflata (Indian Tobacco)

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Lobelia inflata (Indian tobacco, puke weed) is a species of Lobelia native to eastern North America, from southeastern Canada (Nova Scotia to southeast Ontario) south through the eastern United States to Alabama and west to Kansas.
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Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Some reports say that the plant is poisonous; It contains the alkaloid lobeline which has a similar effect upon the nervous system as nicotine; See also the notes below on medicinal uses.
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The plant has been burnt in order to smoke out gnats;
Height [2]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Width [2]  12 inches (0.3 m)
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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0