Family: Campanulaceae
bog lobelia, brook lobelia, fen lobelia, Kalm's lobelia, Ontario lobelia
Kalm’s lobelia, brook lobelia, bog lobelia. Damp or wet, often calcareous shores, meadows, and ledges, locally frequent in fens, shrub carrs, neutral to calcareous low prairies, and sandy, gravelly, or marly lakeshores and spring borders, also interdunal flats and dolomitic pavements along Lake Michigan and rock crevices along Lake Superior.
Floristic Rating: Coefficient of Conservatism = 9, Wetland Indicator = OBL Atlas of the Wisconsin Prairie and Savanna Flora: by T.S. Cochrane & H.H. Iltis: habitat, distribution infomation / flowering and fruiting times USDA Plants Database: Federal Distribution and detailed information including photos USGS - Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin Southwest School of Botanical Medicine: Britton & Brown Illustrated Flora - 2nd Edition (1913) "An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada"