The plant produces a spike of flowers in the late summer. The flowers are more closely clustered towards the top of the spike and become more infrequent further down and the lower flowers begin blooming first. The flowers are two-lipped and tubular, each with five lobes. The upper two lobes are erect and the lower three lobes are be fanned out. Flowering is often abundant and the flower color intense.
Although self compatible lobelia is unable to offer pollen to itself and it must be pollinated by insects, primarily bumblebees of which we have many. Bees use the lower three fused petals as a landing pad. A bee of correct weight will depress these petals on its way to the flower's nectar, this lowers the stigma wiping it against the bee's back. The stigma forms the distal portion of the style and is composed of stigmatic papillae, the cells of which are receptive to pollen.
Lobelia was once considered a cure for syphilis from which came the species name.
Lively, lobia blue eyes
what happened to those lively, lobelia blue eyes?
the type that reflected your pure beauty and essence
granting this world, a gift
something about your eyes now
sends me into a shivering shutdown
a dehumanizing stare from your cold, hypnotic eyes
casting a penumbra over your cheeks
i can't look
though it feels i've seen those eyes many times before
a million in a million
your iris
a machine-readable code
unresponsive to my glare
my hazel, honey eyes
we once gazed into the far horizon
in a euphoric unison
your iris
a glazing surface
in the form of numbers
and a sequence of parallel lines
of varying widths
serving as a blindfold to reality
from wholesome
to wholesome
i'm losing you
and i'm finding you everywhere
you're printed on commodities
and scanned for stock control
societie's
stock control
it's true that all merchandise is barcoded
designed for computers to read
with a quick beam of a red laser
and you chose that
over your lively, lobelia blue eyes
eyes that could change the world
Kiera McCoard
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