Lobelia inflate 

'Indian Tobacco'

Campanulaceae: annual or biannual growing to 60cm by 30cm. Found growing meadows, fields, roadsides, waste places and open woods, usually in dry soils. It has violet flowers that are tinted yellow on the inside. Blooming from July-August. Native to Northern North America - Labrador to Saskatchewan, Georgia, Kansas and Arkansas.

USES:

Indian tobacco was a traditional North American Indian remedy for a wide range of conditions, including; asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and pleurisy, excess causes nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, and respiratory failure, it should not be given to pregnant women or patients with heart complaints. Externally used for pleurisy, rheumatism, tennis elbow, whiplash injuries, boils and ulcers. It has become an important ingredient of proprietary anti-smoking tobaccos (imitating the effects of nicotine) and cough mixtures.

WARNING: HARMFUL IF EATEN, SKIN IRRITANT AND ALLERGEN.

GROWING INFORMATION:

Surface sow seeds in spring or autumn in situ, autumn sown seeds will produce larger plants, the seed can be unpredictable and erratic to germinate, don’t give up with them to soon, GA3 may help.

HARVESTED:
 
APPROX. 1000+ SEEDS