Kalmii: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.  plants terrestrial; NOT [plants aquatic, with leaves all submerged] plants of moist marshy places; NOT [plants of drier soils] stems leafy; NOT [leaves all basal] stem leaves linear; NOT [stem leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate to ovate] stem leaves less than 10 mm wide; NOT [stem leaves usually more than 10 mm wide] flowers in a loose raceme, on lax pedicels; NOT [flowers in a spike-like raceme] racemes few-flowered; NOT [racemes many-flowered]

 

Lobelia: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.  perennials; NOT annuals corolla-tube split to near the base on the upper side capsule 2-celled; NOT capsule 1-celled

Lobeliaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family.  herbs plants green or with some chlorophyll; NOT [plants parasitic or saprophytic, without chlorophyll] plants often with milky juice; NOT [plants without milky juice] NOT [climbing plants with tendrils] leaves basal or alternate; NOT [leaves opposite] flowers NOT in heads, NOT in spikes flowers with two floral rings petals wholly or partly united forming a tube or bell corolla irregular, split down one side; NOT [corolla regular, bell-shaped] anthers united into a tube; NOT [anthers free] ovary inferior; NOT superior