cardinal flower

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   North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers

   SynonymsIndian pinkLobelia cardinalis

   Broaderlobelia

Questions about cardinal flower

What does cardinal flower mean?

cardinal flower means "North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers".

What is another word for cardinal flower?

Close synonyms include Indian pink, Lobelia cardinalis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardinal flower a common word?

cardinal flower is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.