great lobelia

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   tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers

   Synonymsblue cardinal flowerLobelia siphilitica

   Broaderlobelia

Questions about great lobelia

What does great lobelia mean?

great lobelia means "tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers".

What is another word for great lobelia?

Close synonyms include blue cardinal flower, Lobelia siphilitica. 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 great lobelia a common word?

great lobelia 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.