Lobelia pinifolia flowers

The profuse Lobelia pinifolia flowering in picture has most of its flowers pointing in the same direction.

Small samples sometimes result in wrong conclusions drawn from available data. Check on more of these plants and the notion of naturally aligned flowers will be dispelled. The more becoming chance features are, the easier they may mislead.

The narrow leaves below the flowers are variably curved as is common for the species.

The pale calyces are short and cup-shaped, their sepal lobes sometimes veering away from the corollas.

The outside of the corollas in picture are hairy as the calyces (Manning, 2007; Bean and Johns, 2005; iNaturalist).