Family: Acanthaceae
Group: Dicot
Perennation:
Perennial
Habit:
Shrub
Substrate:
Terrestrial
Native Status:
Not Native, Naturalized
Native Range:
Mexico and Central America; naturalized in the West Indies.
Map of Locations [currently Florida only]
History in the Bahamas:
Not listed in Britton & Millspaugh (1920). Reported by Correll & Correll (1982: 1350, 1352, with illustrations) for moist, dense coppices in the northwestern Commonwealth (region 8). Although not indicated as such in Correll & Correll, this is clearly naturalized in the Bahamas and elsewhere in the West Indies (see the Flora of the West Indies below).
Comments:
For more images, click on the Flora of the West Indies, USDA PLANTS and Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants links below.
