The cardinal flower is a tall perennial lobelia that is native to the eastern United States and not to be confused with the low-growing, often blue annual lobelia. Its brilliant, showy red blooms ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...

I don't know whether it is the archaic language, the wonder of the time, or the more thoughtful and slower pace of life in the past, but it seems like the field guides and scientific surveys of the ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...

"When vivid color is wanted, what can surpass or equal our cardinal-flower? There is a glow about this flower as if color emanated from it as from a live coal [that] rests in a steady, still radiance.

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away. The beauty of those cardinal flowers was not in their profusion of blooms but in the ...

The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.

The late summer wildflower season has arrived. Along roadsides and woodland edges some of our more robust native plants are now coming into full bloom. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout. These ...