Species Information
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Anthophyta
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Order: Scrophulariales
Family: Acanthaceae
Genus: Justicia
Species: wrightii
Wright's Water-Willow - Justicia wrightii
Image courtesy of New Mexico Rare Plants
274158
Species Extent (New Mexico)
General Description
Suffrutescent perennial, 8-15 cm tall; leaves sessile, linear to oblanceolate, strigillose, mostly 10-15 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, acute to rounded at the apex, margins flat; flowers solitary, sessile in the leaf axils, bractlets linear-subulate to linear or oblanceolate, 2.5-6(11) mm long; calyces 4-lobed, 2.5-4.5 mm long; corollas 8.5-12 mm long, purple; fruit 7-8 mm long, glabrous or with a few scattered trichomes at the tip; seeds flat, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm wide. Flowers April to June.
Status
Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database
Number of Subpopulations: 27
Number of Mapped Locations: 274
Number of Observations: 1192
Observation date range: 07-25-2000 to 08-05-2020
External Links
View More Information about this species at:
NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)
NatureServe Explorer
New Mexico Rare Plants Website
Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS)