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§1 Plant

Ruellia brevifolia (Pohl) Ezcurra

vernacular tropical wild petunia — species · Acanthaceae

USDA
RUBR12
GBIF
5415377
Rank
species
tropical wild petunia (Ruellia brevifolia)
Platephotograph · Ruben D. LaymeCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Acanthaceae Juss.
Genus
Ruellia
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 2 counties across 1 state
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 2 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.

§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 2 counties across 1 state.

Hawaii view state ↗ 2 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/RUBR12 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5415377 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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