Family: Acanthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Old World; widely cultivated and naturalized elsewhere in the tropics and subtropics.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1344-1345) for disturbed areas in the central Commonwealth (region 6).
Comments:
For more images visit the Flora of the West Indies and Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (below), and
Top Tropicals.
