Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon weeping member of the verbena

weeping member of the verbena family

Malvaviscus arboreus earns a place in any warm-climate garden

Originating in Mikawa

then carries small

Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon weeping member of the verbenaFew native perennials burn as bright as Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower, whose late summer spikes of pure, velvety scarlet stop traffic in any garden. The species ranges across much of North America along stream banks, wet meadows, and ditches, and takes the common name from the vivid red of a cardinal's robes. From a low rosette of broad green leaves rises a stiff, unbranched stem hung with tubular flowers built, as luck would have it,