Great Blue Lobelia
Last autumn I got this picture of a Great Blue Lobelia . This is one of the good guys, a native wildflower popular with our little pollinator friends. It is considered slightly poisonous, which provides one advantage: it's less likely to be eaten down to nothing by deer or rabbits. Though I haven't shown this wildflower before, I have shown a relative (same genus) of it. A clue as to who that relative is can be surmised from an alternative name of the Great Blue Lobelia: Blue Cardinal Flower. Yes, it's related to the (regular) Cardinal Flower , another poisonous-to-eat, good-for-pollinators wildflower that can sometimes be spotted in my area. October 9, 2021 at Duke Farms Photo 168358753, (c) jpviolette, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) October 9, 2021 at Duke Farms Photo 168358768, (c) jpviolette, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)