Lobelia aquaticaCham.

WFO wfo-0000814190 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Lobelia aquatica, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. a Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2019-06-22 / obs. 42867711
Lobelia aquatica, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. b Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42867766
Lobelia aquatica, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. c Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42867831
Lobelia aquatica, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. d Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42867876
Lobelia aquatica, photographed by Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin
fig. e Edson Luis Fabro Gasperin, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 42867929

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Lobelia aquatica is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Haiti, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaDominican RepublicFrench GuianaHaitiParaguayPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Lobelia aquatica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Dominican Republic DOM
French Guiana FRG
Haiti HAI
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dortmanna aquatica (Cham.) Kuntze
  • Lobelia aquatica var. gracilis E.Wimm.
  • Lobelia bracteolata Vatke
  • Lobelia domingensis A.DC.
  • Rapuntium aquaticum (Cham.) C.Presl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.