Lobelia laxiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae.

[2] It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

The inflorescence is a raceme up to 40 centimeters long bearing leaflike bracts and several flowers.

The flower may be over 6 centimeters long including its tubular base and corolla with narrow, spreading lobes.

Each flower blooms for about a week, enough time for the mite to complete its life cycle.