Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon where the early flowers make

where the early flowers make the buckwheat tree one of the first and most important nectar sources of the southern year

but only female plants carry that fruit

The Chinese flame tree is a fast-growing

and the long stamens and evening scent suggest a partnership with night-flying moths as well

weeping member of the verbena family

Lobelia cardinalis prophouse-on-the-horizon where the early flowers makeFew native perennials burn as bright as Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower, whose late summer spikes of pure, velvety scarlet stop traffic in any garden. The species ranges across much of North America along stream banks, wet meadows, and ditches, and takes the common name from the vivid red of a cardinal's robes. From a low rosette of broad green leaves rises a stiff, unbranched stem hung with tubular flowers built, as luck would have it,