Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
As I was walking alongside a country road, this cardinal flower's vibrant color caught my attention. It was growing in a slow flowing culvert. When I got down in the culvert I was greeted by a slew of pleasant cardinal flowers off in the creek-bed.
The cardinal flower, or scarlet lobelia, is native to wetlands in much of the eastern United States. Like the bird, Cardinalis cardinalis, the flower in named after the crimson vestments of the cardinals of the Catholic Church.
Festooning the creek-bed
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