Herbaceous Plants
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is poorly defined. Annuals and perennial herbs were included here. This is retained but Annuals are also separately identified.
Lampranthus multiradiatus (Jacq.) N.E.Brown
Erect-stemmed succulent with spreading branches, slender, 3-angles leaves with translucent dots, and pale pink flowers. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lavatera trimestris L. var. alba
Fully-hardy annual with rounded, shallowly lobed leaves, to 6cm long, and, in the variety alba, open funnel-shaped white flowers, to 10cm across, produced singly from the leaf axils in summer. In the species the flowers vary from white to blush pink. To 1.2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Limonium sinuatum (L.) Mill.
Frost hardy, erect, densely hairy perennial with basal rosettes of lance-shaped, deeply-lobed, wavy-margined leaves, to 15cm long, and stiff, branched, winged stems, bearing panicles of tiny, funnel-shaped, pink, white or blue flowers, enclosed in white or pale calyces, in summer and autumn. It is usually grown as an annual. To 40cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Linaria species unidentified
An unidentified species. Linaria are hardy annual and perennial herbs grown for their irregular, 2-lipped, spurred, white, pink, red, purple, orange or yellow flowers, resembling Antirrhinum. [RHSD, Hortus].
Linum album Kotschy ex Boiss.
No description at present.
Linum grandiflorum Desf.
Hardy annual, branched at base, with linear-lanceolate leaves, somewhat erect, and large usually rose-coloured flowers but variable in colour, in loose panicles in summer. To 30cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lisianthus splendens Hook.
Tender, drooping evergreen with pendant red flowers. [JD].
Lobelia cardinalis L.
Fully hardy, short-lived, clump-forming perennial with reddish-purple stems and long racemes of tubular brilliant scarlet-red flowers in summer and early autumn. To 90cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Lobelia coronipifolia L. var. caerulea
Procumbent half-hardy perennial with toothed, lance-shaped leaves and large purplish-blue flowers. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lobelia gracilis Andr.
Erect to shortly trailing glabrous herbaceous plant, leaves to 5.5cm long, the upper ones lance-shaped and pinnatifid, becoming linear, the flowers in one-sided racemes of up to 12 blooms, dark blue or violet, paler at the base. To 30cm. [FNSW, Beadle].
Lobelia ignea Paxt.
Herbaceous perennial with scarlet flowers, growing to 90cm. [BM t.4960/1857].
Lobelia laxiflora H.B. & K.
Half-hardy perennial or sub-shrub with toothed, lance-shaped leaves and red and yellow flowers. To 1.5m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lobelia mucronata Cav.
Half-hardy, upright, herbaceous perennial with oblong to oblongo-lanceolate, toothed leaves and crimson flowers. To 90cm. [JD, BM t.3207/1833].
Lobelia propinqua Hort. ex Loud.
Lobelia fulgens var. propinqua, said to be a hybrid between L. fulgens and L. splendens, is figured in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany. [MB p.52/1835]. See Lobelia splendens Willd. var. fulgens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) S.Watson.
Lobelia splendens Willd. var. fulgens (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) S.Watson
Borderline frost hardy, clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial with dark red stems and tubular scarlet flowers in late summer. To 90cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
