Cardinal Flower Shade. Remember cardinal flower prospers in moist soil but the soil should never be water logged waterlogging will most likely cause the leaves to rot. A somewhat short lived clump forming perennial which features erect terminal spikes racemes of large cardinal red flowers on unbranched alternate leafed stalks rising typically to a height of 2 3.
How to grow cardinal flower general description and facts the cardinal flower lobelia cardinalis is a perennial flower native to most of north america. A cardinal flower plant can appear to live longer than 3 or 4 years because the plants readily re seed themselves giving the appearance of longer life when it is really just new plants growing from seeds that were dropped from. Some including the cardinal flower only live 3 or 4 years longer than annuals and biennials but shorter than perennials so they are called short lived perennials.
Cardinal flower overwinters as an evergreen rosette of basal foliage.
Red cardinal flower lobelia cardinalis grow in moist and even wetland areas and has bright red flowers that usually appear around may. Of course the fact that it does not bloom in spring but adds color later makes it of huge. This flower has been very popular for. A cardinal flower plant can appear to live longer than 3 or 4 years because the plants readily re seed themselves giving the appearance of longer life when it is really just new plants growing from seeds that were dropped from.
