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§1 Plant
Ruellia metziae Tharp
vernacular Metz's wild petunia — species · Acanthaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Acanthaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Ruellia
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 32 counties across 1 state§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 32 counties across 1 state.
Texas view state ↗ 32 N ▾
- Bandera 48019
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Bosque 48035
- Brown 48049
- Burnet 48053
- Comal 48091
- Concho 48095
- Edwards 48137
- Gillespie 48171
- Grayson 48181
- Hamilton 48193
- Karnes 48255
- Kendall 48259
- Kerr 48265
- Kimble 48267
- Kinney 48271
- Llano 48299
- Mason 48319
- McLennan 48309
- Medina 48325
- Menard 48327
- Motley 48345
- Real 48385
- Runnels 48399
- Sutton 48435
- Tom Green 48451
- Travis 48453
- Uvalde 48463
- Val Verde 48465
- Williamson 48491
- Wilson 48493
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RUME ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5415410 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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