Apache Lobelia

Lobelia anatina F. E. Wimmer, Repert. Sp. Nov. 19: 385. 1924
Stems erect, often several from thick perennial roots, simple or with a few subordinate branches, 1-3 mm. in diameter at base, green (or purplish below), 15-70 cm. high, smooth or sparsely pubescent below; cauline leaves few-25, appressed-ascending, thin, glabrous or the lowest ciliate on margins of petiole, the blades shallowly and uniformly callose-dentate or nearly entire, 0.1-0.6 cm. wide by 3.5-8 cm. long, 7.5-15 (20) times as long as wide, the lower broader, the upper leaves linear to lanceolate, attenuate at tip and little narrowed to the base, the lower ones acute or blunt at tip, narrowed at base, often oblanceolate, the lowest sometimes obovate, rounded at tip, petiolate, up to 1.3 cm. wide by 3.5 cm. long; leaves sometimes all linear, or nearly so; inflorescence few-22 cm. long, little or not at all secund, loosely (few-) 10-23-flowered, often pedunculate 5-8 cm., but this not noticeable because of the widely spaced flowers; pedicels ascending, weak, 6-15 (25) mm. long in fruit, glabrous (less often bristly-pubescent), bibracteolate near base; flower usually deflexed at maturity; flower-bracts narrowly linear, usually glabrous, callose-dentate, 9-14 (the lowest to 25) mm. long; flower 15-23 mm. long, including hypanthium; corolla blue, with a white eye, glabrous without, the lower lip roughened within, the tube hairy within, 7-9 mm. long, entire except for the dorsal fissure which extends to a point 1-2 mm. from base, the lobes of the lower lip spreading, obovate, inucronate, up to 3-5 mm. wide by 8-10 mm. long, the two upper lobes erect or reflexed, linear-spatulate, up to 1.0-1.8 mm. wide by 6-9 mm. long; filament-tube (3.5) 4-5 mm. long, scarcely deflexed, included in the narrow corolla-tube, glabrous or hairy below, the filaments connate distally only; anther-tube 2-3 mm. long, bluish-gray, the two smaller anthers whitetufted, the others cihate on backs or nearly smooth; hypanthium in anthesis campanulatc or oblong, usually glabrous (less often bristly-pubescent), in fruit becoming campanulate or ellipsoid, 3-4 ram. across; capsule more than half inferior, 6-9 mm. long; calyx-lobes linearsubulate, glabrous or slightly pubescent, 3-7 mm. long; seeds ellipsoid, light brown, smooth and shining, about 0.6 mm. long.
Type locality: Moist places at the base of the Sierra Madre, Chihuahua, Pringle 1659 (herb. Vienna, Delessert).
Distribution; Arizona and western New Mexico, south along the Sierra Madre to Durango.

Lobelia anatina, commonly known as Apache lobelia or south western lobelia, is a small herbaceous plant in the family Campanulaceae native to North America.

The herb is found only in the south west of North America.