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Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
This lovely wildflower, a hummingbird favorite, shines with brilliant scarlet flowers. Its natural habitat is the floodplain forests, freshwater marshes, and wet meadows throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region. The Virginia Native Plant Society honored Cardinal Flower as Wildflower of the Year in 1991.
Did you know that each small but showy Lobelia flower has a tubular corolla with two lips?
Learn more about Lobelia cardinalis and about bilabiate…