Any of various related plants of the family Campanulaceae. Any of various plants of the genera Campanula, Jasione, and Lobelia. Chiefly with…

A perennial herbaceous plant with spikes of two-lipped scarlet flowers, Lobelia cardinalis (family Campanulaceae), native to North America, and…

Lobelia cardinalis (see cardinal flower, n.).

In full blue cardinal flower. The perennial herbaceous plant Lobelia siphilitica, also native to North America and cultivated in gardens, which…

A genus of herbaceous (rarely shrubby) plants, typical of the family Lobeliaceæ, of which many species are cultivated for the beauty of their…

(more fully syphilitic blue lobelia) a blue-flowered lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica, of North America and Canada, formerly used as a remedy for…

the cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis (family Campanulaceae), which has spikes of scarlet flowers.

= scarlet cardinal-flower n.