2024 Edition • Donate • Get the App • Cite this Page
X

Colors

Data mode

Account

Login
Sign up

Support FSUS...

We've finished our 2024 fundraiser. Many thanks to those who have given! It's not too late to support us (click here)...

Copy permalink to share

Justicia ovata (Walter) Forsyth f.. Coastal Plain Water-willow, Loose-flower Water-willow. Phen: May-Jul. Hab: Swamps, marshes. Dist: S. VA south to c. peninsular FL, Panhandle FL, and se. AL; s. IL.

Origin/Endemic status: Endemic

Synonymy ⓘ: = F, K3, K4, S, Daniel (2013); = Dianthera ovata Walter; = Justicia ovata (Walter) Forsyth f. var. ovata – Fl6, Il, K1, Va, WH3, Long (1970), Wasshausen (1998); ? Justicia humilis Michx. var. humilis – G; < Justicia ovata (Walter) Forsyth f. – GW2, RAB; < Justicia ovata (Walter) Forsyth f. var. ovata – C

Show in key(s)

Show parent genus

Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL (taxonomic split from wetland indicator species)
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: OBL

Heliophily ⓘ: 5

Your browser does not support SVGs

Hover over a shape, letter, icon, or arrow on the map for definition or see the legend.

image of plant© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Richard LeBlond | Original Image ⭷
image of plant© Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) source CC-BY-NC-SA, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷

Feedback

See something wrong or missing on about Justicia ovata? Let us know here: (Please include your name and email if at all complicated so we can clarify if needed.) We greatly appreciate feedback, and will include updates from you in our next webapp update, which can take a few months.


Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Rhizomatous and colonial perennial of swamps and marshes.

Stems: Stems simple, smooth.

Leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile to short-petiolate, in 4-7 pairs, elliptic to oval, 2-4 in. long.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers in a loose spike on a thin stem, becoming looser with time; each flower white to lavender-pink, ½-¾ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, and tubular with 2 lips, the bottom lip 3-lobed (middle lobe larger) and with a patch of dark pink-purple spotting, the upper lobe slightly notched; there are 5 narrow sepals nearly as long as the corolla tube..

Fruits: Fruit a stalked, club-shaped capsule.

Comments:

Height: 1-3 ft.

plant sale text:

bloom table text:

description: Rhizomatous and colonial perennial of swamps and marshes.

stems: Stems simple, smooth.

leaves: Leaves opposite, sessile to short-petiolate, in 4-7 pairs, elliptic to oval, 2-4 in. long.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers in a loose spike on a thin stem, becoming looser with time; each flower white to lavender-pink, ½-¾ in. long, bilaterally symmetric, and tubular with 2 lips, the bottom lip 3-lobed (middle lobe larger) and with a patch of dark pink-purple spotting, the upper lobe slightly notched; there are 5 narrow sepals nearly as long as the corolla tube..

fruits: Fruit a stalked, club-shaped capsule.

comments:

cultural notes:

germination code:

native range: