Lobelia strictaSw.

WFO wfo-0000815660 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, 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 stricta, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. a Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / 2014-05-25 / obs. 968828
Lobelia stricta, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. b Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 968829
Lobelia stricta, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 98867673

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Lobelia stricta is native: Leeward Is., Windward Is. Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Lobelia stricta, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Leeward Is. LEE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Windward Is. WIN

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 7 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 flavescens (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Dortmanna stricta (Sw.) Kuntze
  • Lobelia areolata Rich. ex Juss.
  • Lobelia flavescens (A.DC.) E.Wimm.
  • Rapuntium strictum (Sw.) C.Presl
  • Tupa flavescens A.DC.
  • Tupa stricta (Sw.) A.DC.

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.

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