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Lobelia spicata (palespike lobelia)

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  The plant is potentially poisonous; It contains the alkaloid lobeline which has a similar effect upon the nervous system as nicotine;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [2]  10 inches (0.25 m)
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Upper Mississippi United States Nearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    

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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
♦ 4Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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